Goods 4 Girls-- sanitary supplies....

[bunnyjadwiga]

After having spent a goodly amount of time thinking about sanitary supplies for menstruation in pre-modern cultures, I feel obliged to talk about the movement to donate new, unused, reusable sanitary pads for young women in developing countries. Crunchy Chicken came up with this idea:
http://www.goods4girls.org/

Great idea. However, I've never tried to make/use something of this sort, so the instructions she points to are driving me batty. I want something that tells me what kind of fabric and where I can likely get it, as well as patterns. I think this is a great idea, but I really am not in a position to research the entire reusable hygiene supplies movement before doing this.

If someone who is familar with these has clearer instructions or comments on a particular pattern that make them easier to figure out, maybe we can get a group together to make a bunch of these and ship 'em out. (P.S. what keeps them from twisting around, by the way?)

Comments

Everything old...

[kandy-elizabet.livejournal.com]

When I started my period (no, I'm not going to say how long...) my mother taught me all about the belts and the clips and all that cr*p. (Mind you, this was before the stick on kind.) They were disposable pads, though, and she explained patiently how wonderful it was for me to be able to use the disposables becuase when she was my age (and older) they didn't have disposables -- they had rags, held in with special belts and such. Rags that had to be washed out and hung, on a line usually. Basically, there was a tail on each end which folded over a bit of elastic and was pinned (safety pin of course) in place.

What goes around comes around.

There are a couple of vendors of commercial re-usable pads out there as well. More power to those who can use them. If they had come out before it was a moot point for me, I'm not sure I would have been able to, but then my issues (which caused my surgical solution) were pretty extreme.