Many girls in rural Malawi miss school during their period as they do not have sanitary products. A group of young tailors have learnt how to make reusable menstrual hygiene kits for the girls in their community. Luwatala is a village in Malawi partnered with Stow-Heriot in Scottish Borders http://luwatala.link/ . The parish has a faith link with Stow-Heriot Church and a business enterprise link with Lauderdale Rotary. A gift made here is turned into materials to make kits locally in Luwatala. This fund also aims to encourage a small business enterprise for young people using their tailoring skills locally.

If you would like to give any donation it will help this project. To sponsor a tailor for £10 make the donation to the Tailors for Dignity Project on this site and receive a Java Print notebook we have covered in fabric from Malawi here. You will also receive a notecard with a greeting - translated from one of the tailors.

We would like to thank Lauderdale Rotary Club for buying two secondhand sewing machines for the young Luwatala tailors - so they can set up a small business. The tailors have earned the sewing machines by making 35 kits for school girls (who will receive the kits for free; cost of materials donated from this JustGiving site). The foot treadle machines will help the tailors build a small enterprise and local income.