Volunteers posing for a photo in South Africa

South Africa

Are you interested in joining our Girls Matter Outreach Team to Limpopo Province, South Africa, in September 2024 or June 2025? 

Paula’s 2023 team members returned from Limpopo Province in September. The outreach trip was incredible, possibly even life-changing for hundreds of girls and for American team members, too! We reached 2,988 girls in a variety of secondary schools! The impact of next year's team is bound to be just as impactful! We'll have thousands of GMP feminine hygiene kits ready to take with us. Paula’s next distribution trip is scheduled for September 5-17, 2024.

As usual, our 2024 and 2025 outreach trips are being organized by Blessman International (BI) and will be based near Mokopane, Limpopo, South Africa. Limpopo is one of the poorest provinces of South Africa with 79% of its population living under the national poverty line. In this single province (about half the size of Colorado), there are 5.6 million people including 1.65 million students in primary and secondary schools. Approximately 790,000 of the female learners are growing up in poverty. The need for feminine hygiene education and supplies is tremendous.

Members of our Girls Matter-designated outreach teams focus primarily on education and kit-distributions for thousands of girls/women mostly in secondary schools. The men (or females with special interests) on our team may work with the male students at the schools or in other outreaches (such as farming/gardening, construction of water systems or toilets, distribution of eyeglasses or shoes, child-development, and/or the children’s feeding program).

 Contact Paula

Students who have received personal packs from Girls Matter Period

Want to learn more about the South Africa Outreach Trips from Afia? Sure, she’s a dog, but she knows stuff! Check out her book, Afia’s Tale (available on Amazon.com).

100% of the profits of Afia’s Tale supports Girls Matter Period™, Inc. allowing our volunteers to produce even more Personal Packs.