In 2009, Grace Ochieng’, a native of Lwala and sister to founders Milton and Fred, began a microenterprise project with women tailors in the Lwala community. The sewing co-op produces reusable cloth menstrual pads in order to sell them to local women and schoolgirls. This effort is aimed to curb school absenteeism in girls and improve the health status of women in an environmentally and economically sustainable way.
The group is also teaming up with Got Your Back to provide school uniforms and making a line of cloth bags in partnership with Thistle Farms, a social enterprise which sells women’s bath and body products in the U.S.
Watch a Video About Current Projects of the Women’s Sewing Co-op
