Welcome back to Essential Oil Solutions with Dotaura. This week, as we've celebrated Thanksgiving,

we've loved being able to highlight some of the organizations that our Dota Healing Hands Foundation

has partnered with. And we're excited to feature one more partner this week. During our annual

global convention in September, we had the incredible chance to sit down with Celeste Murgens,

who founded Days for Girls, a nonprofit that strives to increase access to menstrual care and education,

as well as shatter stigmas and limitations for women and girls around the world.

Celeste, how did Days for Girls come about? How did you become aware that this was an issue?

I was working in Kenya. I'd be there every six months or so, and I was in the process whenever I was there, helping an orphanage there.

I hadn't thought of this question even once. I was working on things like solar and water and agriculture.

And then the post-election violence happened where half a million

people were displaced. And this orphanage swelled to 1,400 reported kids, which is impossible

if you saw the space. And then I was asking the question of how to feed them and help with that.

They hadn't eaten in two days.

Went to bed with that question, woke up at 2.30 in the morning with it going through my head,

have you asked what the girls are doing for feminine hygiene?

I literally went, because I hadn't thought to ask that even once.

And when I inquired, they told me nothing.

They wait in their rooms. It turned

out that the 500 girls there would wait in their rooms and miss class. But it also

turned out when we brought the fur solutions because my first thought was disposable

products, single use, that's all I knew of. And then I started asking if I sent money for them to do whatever they needed to support

the kids.

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