| inbluevt | Date: Saturday, 2013/09/21, 8:20 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Around the globe, women and girls still miss work and school due to their periods. Saundra Pelletier, CEO of WomanCare Global, talks about her new campaign to increase access to sanitary products in the
developing world.
Hillary Clinton recently remarked that we cannot have development in today's world without partnerships with the private sector. I couldn’t agree more. How else can we turn ideas into action, create impact at scale or solve real problems. It takes collaboration. We know this at WomanCareGlobal. We live this at WomanCare Global. Our mission is to provide access to
reproductive health solutions for women around the world. We bring family-planning products to the places where they are needed most; places where value and quality are the exception and not the rule; places where women will travel for days to stand in line for contraception.
We are working very hard to change this reality and create a new paradigm where women will have uninterrupted access to safe and affordable family-planning products. Yet we know we can’t do this alone. If we tried, we wouldn’t be effective in either scope or scale. We wouldn’t be able to reach the providers in Ghana or women in Kenya or midwives in Nairobi. No, we need partners, we need donors, we need distributors, we need physicians and healthcare providers and we need people like you to be aware of—and to appreciate—the challenges facing women and girls in developing countries.
To be fair, there is no shortage of issues or worthy causes. We are focused on women’s reproductive healthcare, which is a critical and highly visible issue. However, there are a host of issues that are no less concerning but are often less obvious. Feminine hygiene, for example, is an issue that is adjacent to women’s healthcare but doesn’t garner a lot of international attention or interest. It is likely that you haven’t thought all that much about the state of feminine hygiene in the developing world and it’s likely that you are not alone. After all, it doesn’t feel like an issue that should be top of mind in light of everything else going on in the world today. But it is important, and here’s why—women are losing their chance to earn and to learn.
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