It wasn’t a regular college party. Cookies and chips were served, as well as fruit punch. The entertainment was conversation and sewing machines. It was the Party with a Purpose at Indiana University ...

Umodzi Youth Organization (UYO) has donated five sewing machines for training to 10 women in sewing sanitary pads that would help reduce girls’ absenteeism during menstrual cycles. Presenting the ...

Seamstress Fadilah Ali, who has 15 years of experience sewing traditional and modern garments, now plans to make and sell her own line of affordable and reusable sanitary pads. The idea emerged when ...

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An organisation started by a student sewing reusable period pads for refugees in her kitchen during the coronavirus lockdown has received charity status. Ella Lambert, 23, from Chelmsford in Essex, ...