GIRLS DAY--HUMANITARIAN EVENT IN KINSHASA

Sister Johnson, right, Sister Bybee, Sister Gates, Sister Smith. Girl's Day was organized by a committee of women headed by Sister Johnson. Women and a few men gathered to make sanitary kits for young girls. African girls often quit school when they begin their menstrual cycles because they don't have the means to obtain the necessary supplies to manage the change. So an international movement called Girl's Day makes and provided these kits to young women to help them during their maturing years to continue in their daily activities.

Preparing the hall.

Everyone helps.

Sister Gates at work.

Brother Gates and a sister cleaning tables.

Sister Gates, Sister Smith, and Sister Johnson discussing.

Mopping the floors.

Sister Bybee cheerfully cleaning tables.

Sisters at work disinfecting tables.

The hall setup.

The main setup crew.

It was excruciating work. 

Sewers at work.

Elder Johnson adding snaps.

Sewing machine technician adjusting.

Sisters inspecting the purses that will contain the kits.

Underwear for the young women's kits.

Preparing the snaps.

Busy hands at work.

Several sewing machines were going all day.

Volunteer working away on a foot treadle machine.

Cutting patterns.

Young and old participated.

Laying out patterns.

Sister Bybee and member cutting out from patterns.

Learning how to set snaps.

The participants hard at work.

Maturation classes taught to girls by a young sister.

Girls selecting their purses.

Young women who received hygiene kits.

The power committee that organized the Girl's Day evaluating the meeting.