The Days for Girls Podcast

Days for Girls International
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The Days for Girls Podcast

Go behind the scenes with Days for Girls International, an award-winning NGO, as we interview thought leaders in international development who work to empower women and girls around the world. You’ll hear from experts in the fields of menstrual health, social entrepreneurship, and international development, as well as get inside stories from the women and girls impacted by our vital work to create menstrual equity for every girl, everywhere, period. Visit daysforgirls.org to learn more about Days for Girls International.

  1. 10/27/2023

    Episode 051: The Period Positive Workplace Initiative with Diana Nelson and Jess Strait

    In the mission for menstrual equity, Days for Girls, The Policy Project, Share the Dignity, Population Services International Europe, The Pad Project, The International Sanitary Supply Association, and The Toilet Board Coalition partnered to create the Period Positive Workplace initiative to help organizations around the world build menstrual equity.Visit https://www.periodpositiveworkplace.org/ to learn more. Period Positive Workplaces support gender equality by providing period product...

    34 min
  2. Episode 050: Jeanne Charbit on Scaling Up Access to Menstrual Health in the Global South

    07/24/2023

    Episode 050: Jeanne Charbit on Scaling Up Access to Menstrual Health in the Global South

    Jeanne Charbit is a Project Manager at Hystra Consulting which she joined in 2019. In her first years, Jeanne mainly worked in the nutrition sector, notably on a multi-year partnership between an FMCG and a donor in Nigeria, and on MERIEM project, for which she spent a year in Burkina Faso, working with local companies to develop fortified food products for children and women. More recently she has been working on menstrual health issues and is the author of Hystra’s report "Scaling up access...

    28 min
  3. Episode 049: The Fistula Foundation with Habiba Corodhia Mohamed

    06/27/2023

    Episode 049: The Fistula Foundation with Habiba Corodhia Mohamed

    Habiba C Mohamed is a social change activator, and trained psychotherapist advocating for women’s bio-psychosocial health and rights. Ms Mohamed supports marginalized women and girls to tap into their inner strengths and amplify their potential and impact in society. Habiba Mohamed works with Fistula Foundation as the Regional Director, Programs (Africa, Asia). Habiba Joined the Foundation in 2014 as the outreach manager. In this role, she designed and spearheaded the community strategy for t...

    31 min
  4. Episode 048: The Malkia Initiative with Jedidah Lemaron

    06/01/2023

    Episode 048: The Malkia Initiative with Jedidah Lemaron

    Jedidah Lemaron is an accomplished psychologist and specialist in AYSRH and Menstrual Health and Hygiene Management. As a training consultant, FGM advocate, and the Founder and Executive Director of The Malkia Initiative, she works tirelessly to ensure that every girl and woman in pastoral communities can participate in development meaningfully and effectively through quality education, advocacy, and gender justice mainstreaming.With over nine years of experience in Gender, Community Sexual R...

    32 min
  5. Episode 047: Mona Foundation with Laura Baerwolf

    01/12/2023

    Episode 047: Mona Foundation with Laura Baerwolf

    Laura Baerwolf has been with Mona Foundation since 2019 and is currently its Chief Operating Officer. She is passionate about Mona’s mission to alleviate poverty through education and gender equality and its unique values-driven approach to philanthropy based on the oneness of humanity. She sees her work at Mona as the culmination of a life-long commitment to service.Laura is an experienced administrator with a Master's degree in Public Health. She worked in healthcare administration at FHP I...

    29 min
  6. Episode 046: Cynthia Covey Haller on DfG & "Living Life in Crescendo"

    09/13/2022

    Episode 046: Cynthia Covey Haller on DfG & "Living Life in Crescendo"

    In this episode, Cynthia Covey Haller talks about her latest book, Live Life in Crescendo and why Days for Girls is mentioned as an example of what it means to live life in crescendo. Cowritten with his daughter, Cynthia Covey Haller, and published posthumously, Live Life in Crescendo is a life-changing and life-affirming book that befits the generosity and wisdom of the late Stephen R. Covey.Cynthia Covey Haller is an author, teacher, speaker, and active participant in her community. S...

    32 min
  7. Episode 045: Anders Ankarlid on A Good Company's Partnership with DfG

    08/31/2022

    Episode 045: Anders Ankarlid on A Good Company's Partnership with DfG

    Today's episode is with Anders Ankarlid, Founder of A Good Company, whose mission is to create elegant, thoughtful and sustainable everyday products. Anders is a serial e-commerce entrepreneur, and a father of three. He has worked in e-commerce for more than a decade, and considers himself a mindless consumption-activist.In this episode, Anders talks about why he chose Days for Girls International as the nonprofit partner for A Good Company's Bamboo Toilet Paper Products. With each bamboo toi...

    28 min
  8. Episode 044: Rochelle Courtenay on The 2022 Global Period Poverty Forum

    08/31/2022

    Episode 044: Rochelle Courtenay on The 2022 Global Period Poverty Forum

    Rochelle Courtenay is the Founder and Managing Director of Share the Dignity, an Australia-based charity, organizing the The Global Period Poverty Forum (GPPF), Oct. 10-12, 2022. The GPPF will bring together 42 world-class speakers, outstanding researchers and those making a global impact for three days of extraordinary development and learning around how WE can unite to end period poverty. Days for Girls is a participating partner. In this episode, Rochelle talks about the inspiration for he...

    25 min
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Go behind the scenes with Days for Girls International, an award-winning NGO, as we interview thought leaders in international development who work to empower women and girls around the world. You’ll hear from experts in the fields of menstrual health, social entrepreneurship, and international development, as well as get inside stories from the women and girls impacted by our vital work to create menstrual equity for every girl, everywhere, period. Visit daysforgirls.org to learn more about Days for Girls International.

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  • Creator
    Days for Girls International
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2023
  • Episodes
    52
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2023 The Days for Girls Podcast
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