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Organisation forced to halt free sanitary pad project

Code Red Initiative, which distributed period kits in Masiphumelele, Ocean View and Red Hill, is in need of funding

Seamstresses Abigail Mugoni (left) and Bianca Wadi (right) were part of the Code Red Initiative training programme. Mugoni says it took her two hours to finish sewing 20 washable sanitary pads. Photos supplied

The Code Red Initiative was started in 2020 to make sanitary products more accessible in vulnerable communities during the covid pandemic.
Due to funding constraints, the project was forced to temporarily stop operations and could no longer pay the seamstresses they had hired from Masiphumemlele to make the washable sanitary pad kits.
The kits consisted of a small black bucket, with eight pads (five medium and three large), laundry detergent, pegs, cleaning instructions and a drawstring bag.

Abigail Mugoni from Masiphumelele was one of a dozen women…

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