DAYS

FOR GIRLS UPDATE!

We received an email recently from Days for Girls who wanted to share feedback with us from ‘For Ethiopia’, one of their partner charities, and a recent recipient of 100+ kits made over the summer Many of the kits contained components generously donated by the NHEHS charity event (especially knickers!), and the cost of postage was covered by the donated funds They write: ‘You should be extremely proud of making such a difference to the lives of girls in the kind of challenging environments we can only imagine’

‘For Ethiopia’ have shared how when the postman delivered the 103 beautiful kits to head office, they had an amazing chat with the postman about the kits He was so impressed, especially when shown one of the packs He sends on his regards too and thinks you are all amazing When members of ‘For Ethiopia’ take the kits out to Ethiopia they train trainers in using the education manual The whole package of resources that accompanies a days for girls kit through the training workshops is such a blessing for this small charity

They work in a rural area of Ethiopia that is roughly the same size of Gloucestershire The majority of girls have no access to anything when they have their periods except using old rags, and as a result they skip school The excitement when they saw the kits and learnt what this would mean for them was clearly evident. Due to suspected low iron levels due to the local diet many girls do experience heavier flows so these kits will be really popular They will be sending the most recent kits out to Ethiopia in the next few weeks and the team on the ground cannot wait to visit further remote village schools to educate and train these inspiring young girls They write ‘Thank you for being a huge part of this ’

We have been contacted by members of the charity Serving our Superheroes’ who seek to support anyone in West London who are in need Many teenage Ukraine refugees are continuing to settle in the west London area however when starting school, they frequently have nothing

We will hopefully be supporting ‘Days for Girls’ again in the summer term Look out for posters advertising the collection nearer the time

Age Uk Food Collection

Over the past few weeks we have been collecting food to create Christmas Hampers for Age UK Age UK is the leading charity in the UK for supporting older people We brought in foods such as tinned vegetables, pasta, biscuits and spreads but also other items such as shampoo, scarfs and hats to help support older people during the winter months.

School Christmas Cards

From Wednesday 12th October to Tues 18th October we will be collecting stationary to be passed onto these students as well as students in schools in Southall and Greenford who are not able to afford these supplies

Once again NHEHS students have beautifully created Christmas cards to be sold for the charity. This year all proceeds will go to the Log Cabin.

Items that being requested are: Pencil cases pens pencils colour pens, pencils, exercise books, crayons, highlighters, rulers, calculators, notebooks, colouring books.

These can be purchased through ParentPat & were also sold at the Parent's guild Christmas Bazaar

Thank you to Naya C in Year 12 and Lisa B in Year 8 for your lovely designs