bunnyjadwiga: (Default)
2008-02-18 01:45 pm

Goods 4 Girls-- sanitary supplies....

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?)
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2007-07-30 04:10 pm
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Walkability

Wow. Amaebi linked to the Walkability Score calculator, "that scores the ease with which one could live as a pedestrian at a given address"-- http://www.walkscore.com/
Much becomes opaque when I realize that my current residence has the lowest walkability score of anyplace I've ever lived in the Lehigh Valley- 42. Curiously, the place I lived in Emmaus, which was eminently walkable, has low score too, but most of the other place I've lived in were in the 70s and 80s.