Tredyffrin Township resident Leslie Roy has started the local chapter of the nonprofit Days for Girls to provide women and girls across the globe with sustainable menstrual kits, writes Mari Schaefer for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Roy first realized the issues some girls and women faced during their period while on a trip to Uganda. She discovered that menstruating women in poor neighborhoods often stayed home during this time.

“There’s no way they have products,” she thought at the time.

This experience led her to begin the team at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Radnor Township and start sewing sustainable menstrual kits under Project Ensonga Sewing Ministry.

Today, this team has around 100 volunteers, some of whom work from home.

In the last four years, around 600 people have helped put together more than 2,200 kits for distribution in more than a dozen countries worldwide.

The kits are then delivered with printed educational material on the normality of menstruation, as women in some societies often feel shame about having their period.

Read more about Leslie Roy in The Philadelphia Inquirer here.

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