Service Learning Proposal

Gerri Jergensen

WST 3561/ WST 4023

Professor Leandra Preston-Sidler

Service Learning Proposal

Community Partner: Days for Girls International

Contact Info: Jessica Bejarano, Treasure Coast, FL

Days for Girls International serves girls and women of childbearing age in poverty who suffer from lack of access to sanitation wherever they are. However we have to get to them. We partner with NGO's to get sanitary kits into the hands of those who need them in the most effective manner possible, saving duplication of efforts. We recognize that rather than incurring unnecessary expenses we can focus on solutions and utilize existing networks. We establish best practices for micro-enterprise and community programs with trusted NGO's to enable women to make their own kits for the communities they live in, providing much needed supply and employment. We apply what we learn to partner with worldwide NGO's and nations to replicate the programs, with the goal of enabling millions of women to turn oppression into opportunity.

Mission Statement:

Days for Girls International provides sustainable means and education for impoverished women worldwide to be productive every day of every month. Because, no woman should go without access to quality sanitary hygiene.

Mission:

Days for Girls International is a grassroots 501(c)3 non-profit creating a more dignified, humane and sustainable world for girls through advocacy, reproductive health awareness, education and sustainable feminine hygiene because no girl should go without. Women and girls discover their potential and self-value, are equal participants and agents of social change and are given opportunities to thrive, grow and contribute to their community's betterment while ensuring quality sustainable feminine hygiene.

Vision:

Every girl and woman in the world with ready feasible access to quality sustainable hygiene & health education by 2022.

The Plan:

Speak up. Every girl in the world deserves education, safety, and dignity. We further this goal by helping girls who would otherwise go without to have access to quality sustainable feminine hygiene and awareness. We accomplish this through both direct distribution with many nonprofits, by raising awareness, by helping other organizations start their own programs and importantly, by helping impoverished communities start their own programs to supply kits and training. It's working!

Individual/Group Activity:  I will help with the sewing and construction of the kits.

Goals/Outcomes:  To help the organization (Treasure Coast Charter) reach their goals of 366 liners.

Connection to the Course:  Obviously, any method of empowering women is applicable to the course.  Upon completion of more readings, I'll surely find textual applications.

Schedule:  January- contact organization and get preliminary information and documents. February finish enough liners for 8 girls kits. Get 100 dozen wash clothes donated. Mail wash cloths, and liners to the Treasure Coast Group. This first deadline is for shipping next week. After which I will continue to make additional liners.