Links

General Links about the lack of menstrual protection

• http://www.straight.com/article-135772/pads-save-or-trash-africa
• http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/giving/12GIRLS.html
• http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007783.html
• http://www.gladrags.com/blog/2007/11/30/bleeding-in-africa/
• http://washafrica.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/kenya-sanitary-pads-reinvented/
• http://www.blogher.com/helping-african-girls-stay-school-one-pad-time

Links to Organisations that will accept donations of cloth pads

• http://www.shantiuganda.org- The Shanti Uganda Society.  Accepts donations of cloth pads for use in maternity kits as well as for schools and other aid for women in Uganda.
• http://padsforprison.googlepages.com - Pads for Prisons project.  Accepts donations of cloth pads to send to Sudan to be given to prison inmates and staff.

Links to Organisations that have to do with donations, but don't accept donations of pads.

• http://www.mahbobaspromise.org/content.cfm?id=1610 - They appear to be accepting donations of Rad pads, but I am not sure if they accept donations of pads from anywhere else.
• http://www.goonj.info/sanitary%20napkins.php - An organisation that collects 1foot squares of fabric to make into cloth pads for women in India.  (so far they have not answered my e-mail where I asked if they accepted donations of actual pads.)
• http://www.imagitek.com/cuca- An organisation that collects fabric which is taken to Cuba where it is sewn into cloth pads.  I am not sure if they accept donations of made up pads.
• http://www.actsa.org - An agency working in Zimbabwe.  Only accepts monetary donations as it prefers to have disposable products made in Zimbabwe to support the local economy, and water shortage means reusable products are not possible.
• http://www.tampontification.com/donate.php - Works with Womens Shelters in America.  Donate organic cotton tampons or chlorine free pads.
• http://www.alolafoundation.org - Creates Maternity packs for women in East Timor including cloth pads.  Only accepts monetary donations.
• http://www.shelters.org has details of shelters in America and Canada (which often need menstrual product donations).

Places that have not yet replied:

• http://www.volunteer.org.nz  - (contacted 10/10/06) no reply
• FAWEK  - (contacted 10/10/06) no reply yet
• http://www.goonj.info/sanitary%20napkins.php  - (contacted 11/10/06) no reply
• http://www.un.org/womenwatch  - (contacted 18/10/06) no reply
• http://www.unitedplanet.org  - (contacted 18/10/06) no reply
• http://www.kcwh.unimelb.edu.au  - (contacted 19/10/06) no reply
• http://www.greenvillageschools.org  - (contacted 19/10/06) no reply
• http://www.afghanorphans.org  - (contacted 19/10/06) no reply
• http://www.globalfundforwomen.org  - (contacted 19/10/06) no reply
• http://www.unfpa.org  - (contacted 19/10/06) no reply
• http://www.unifem.org.au  - (contacted 19/10/06) no reply
• http://www.advanceafrica.org  - (contacted 19/10/06) no reply
• http://www.who.int/about/regions/afro/en/index.html  - (contacted 19/10/06) no reply
• http://www.sewainternational.com  - (contacted 20/10/06) no reply
• http://www.ausaid.gov.au  - (contacted 30/10/06) no reply
• http://www.orphanagesupport.org  - (contacted 30/10/06) no reply
• http://www.tear.org.au  - (contacted 31/10/06) no reply
• http://www.careaustralia.org.au  - (contacted 31/10/06) no reply

• http://www.oxfam.org.au  - Will accept cloth for emergency packs - still in discussion about everyday programs  (Update - that didn't get off the ground)
• http://www.alolafoundation.org - Only accepts money.
• http://www.actsa.org - Only accepts money to buy disposables.
• http://www.worldvision.com.au  - Will not accept reusable pads for health regulation and import restrictions.
• http://www.robertsabuda.com/ccrfund/ccrfund-apr05.asp  - Able to accept donations, and helping arrange donation through www.counterpart.org - Updated - Contact left the organisation and the project was not accepted by the replacement staff.