I've been making up a few sets of foldup pads... as I've run low on PUL scraps, but got a lot of hemp fleece and flannelette to use... so I've made the foldup pads with strip of PUL to still provide waterproofed pads, but conserving PUL
Putting them in packs of 5, with instructions for use, and a note. To pay for postage to get them to Shanti Uganda, I've been "selling" these packs..... people "buy" them, but instead of them receiving anything, the money to pay to post them to Shanti Uganda. So they are basically sponsoring the pad set... so in the note I include, I say who the pad set is from, giving the person's name.
I was also contacted by a friend who has moved to Papua New Guinea, who wanted some pads for the ladies there. So I sent off a package of Base+insert pads. Not the prettiest - I had orange fabric to use up...
I can't remember how many there were.. 50 I think...
I'd had to stop pad donations, as in Nov or Dec 2010 the US postal service introduced a new fee of $9 for mail sent from Australia to the US (and I'm presuming from other countries too)... supposedly to pay for extra security screening due to terrorist threats... which means a 5 pad set that would normally cost me $10 to post to somewhere like Shanti Uganda, would now cost $19... quite a price hike...
So I need to find non-US based organisations to post to.
Today however, I was contacted by Lori from http://empowerwomeninafrica.com - who needs 225 pads (though more would be great) for a girls conference in Namibia. I told her of the postage issue, and she's going to organise an address to post direct to Namibia, so that will be brilliant.
I already had 30 pads made up (half foldups half base+inserts) - so that's a start... I'll try to make sure they have their 225 by the June deadline, but I'll need to enlist the help of others!
