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First Lutheran volunteers make hygiene products for Malawi girls

Karen Nave of Havre's First Lutheran Church is working with a group of ladies to put together feminine hygiene product kits so girls in developing countries don't have to miss out on a week of life every month.

Nave said that girls in some impoverished countries miss an entire week of school because they don't have the proper hygiene products to use during monthly menstruation.

"When you don't have running water at school and you have one outhouse, it's dicey to come to school," she said.

The hygiene kits aim to remedy the problem.

"It's to extend the dignity of girls so they can stay...

 

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