{"id":4550,"date":"2020-05-20T22:44:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T21:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southport\/?page_id=4550"},"modified":"2020-05-20T22:54:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T21:54:52","slug":"smalls-for-all","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southport\/programme-action-our-projects\/smalls-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Smalls for All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smallsforall.org\/\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">Smalls for All<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\"> is a Scottish charity which collects and distributes underwear to help women and children in Africa and the UK. It was founded by Maria McNamara MBE.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">Maria worked as a volunteer in Africa and during her time there, recalled a priest in Zimbabwe speaking about the lack of underwear and the problems this can cause.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">It is a health and hygiene problem for many poor African communities, as women often only own one pair of tattered pants or have none at all.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">As underwear is seen as a status symbol it offers a degree of security, hence the desire to provide women with a bra and pants.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">Girls at school often miss up to a week each month as they cannot attend due to menstruation and not having the necessary items.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">In Africa, the charity helps those living in orphanages, slums, IDP (internally displaced persons) camps and schools, as well as those in hospitals suffering from medical conditions like obstetric fistula.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">It operates from the UK and support people and charitable organisations working on projects in Africa who are able to transport and distribute the pants and bras that have been collected. Their underwear has gone to many countries in Africa, including Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zanzibar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">They also help charities that focus on alleviating poverty in the UK by providing them with underwear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\"><span class=\"il\">SI Southport member Mary McDonagh<\/span> was introduced to this small charity in the spring of 2015, as she was very concerned about the health and well-being of women and children across the world. She initially purchased items herself and then enlisted the assistance of family, friends, social groups, local businesses and SI Southport &#8211; no stone was left unturned!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">Mary got a fantastic response and members of SI Southport embraced the project, fulfilling the Programme Action objectives for awareness, advocacy and action.\u00a0 Various garments of\u00a0 underwear turned up on her doorstep and even through her letter box.\u00a0They then had to be sorted (unsuitable items discarded &#8211; say no more!) and packaged, ready for the first leg of their journey to the charity in Scotland. On receiving the bags, the charity re-sort them and allocate them to individual organisations in different parts of Africa.<br \/>\n<strong>Smalls for All<\/strong> works with other carefully scrutinised charitable organisations and NGOs who are trying to improve the health and security, and restore the dignity, of women and children in Africa. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">To date, Mary and her team have collected and sent just under 4,000 items to <strong>Smalls for All<\/strong>, with postage expenses and incidental costs covered by SI Southport.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4557\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4557\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southport\/files\/2020\/05\/Smalls-for-All-Pantometer.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4557\" 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