In Morogoro Municipality, Kinara’s tailoring graduates have partnered with the Days for Girls North Vancouver Chapter to open doors in the menstrual-health product sector for young women. By combining advanced sewing instruction with a needs-based Success in Business & Marketing module co-developed with SIDO and MWAYODEO, the initiative turns surplus cotton into washable sanitary-pad kits—and turns creative skill into sustainable income.
Every participant sharpens both hard and soft skills: trainees study precision cutting, multi-layer pad stitching, kit assembly and quality control under lead tailor Madam Wema, who completed an advanced VETA course in 2019, while parallel workshops coach them in pricing, record-keeping and customer outreach.
Hands-on experience comes early. During 2019 pilot distributions, the team delivered 91 reusable-pad kits—complete with shields, liners, a carry pouch and drawstring bag—to 84 Big & Little Sisters and seven female tailoring students, pairing every kit with interactive menstrual-health education that also reached 63 additional peers. The kits last 2–5 years, cutting costs for families and waste for the planet.
The social-enterprise pathway is already boosting livelihoods: 82 % of tailoring graduates who started in 2019–2020 are now employed or self-employed, and youth business groups have shown they can pivot production quickly—making 1 500 fabric masks and 350 litres of liquid soap during Kinara’s COVID-19 response.
The need is clear—only 12 % of surveyed girls said they had what they needed to manage menstruation and 61 % felt embarrassed during their periods—so My Days Enterprise aims to scale local pad production, expand health workshops and keep more girls in class, confident and prepared.
By pairing market-ready tailoring skills with wrap-around business coaching and empowering health education, My Days Enterprise helps young women move from economic uncertainty to resilient entrepreneurship—sewing dignity, income and opportunity into every kit.
