“If we can distribute it to women at age 10, it will cover them from puberty until they finish high school. It is a unique occasion. There’s no second catch, there’s no need for us to go back,” Farr said of the menstrual underwear that could change the lives of college-aged women in Uganda.
Diane Farr is shedding light on the importance of menstrual education.
Accompanied by her 15-year-old twin daughters, the Hearth Nation The star will also head to Kampala, Uganda, after wrapping Season 2 of the CBS series, where she will personally distribute more than 5,000 pairs of menstrual panties.
In partnership with superstar stylist Karla Welch – who started The range company and the NGO Get a hand Uganda – This project will not only give women serving in Uganda the resources they need during their monthly period, but it will also allow these women to stay in class and achieve their goals.
TooFab spoke with Farr about the impact of this project and how something as simple as breakout underwear is changing the lives of women around the world.
“It’s the thing you hate most in the world, but the idea of being taken away because it’s embarrassing to go to high school because you don’t have materials is crushing,” Farr shared, before detailing how she got involved with the mission in Uganda. “My son started providing some services in Uganda. Drowning is the main reason for the death of children there. So there is a group of lifeguards from your school who were going this summer to teach kids how to swim. And from there we met this NGO, whose goal for 10 years has been to bring education and supplies to Uganda.”
She continued: “And it’s not the cities – there are some really urban, fun, developed elements of the country. After that, there are some places that are not, that are actually going through difficult times. Child marriage is still a big problem because if you can’t go to high school and have no way of becoming solvent by age 13, children will become a burden on the family.
Although there have been attempts to advertise periodic supplies to Kampala before, with the village even implementing a machine to provide menstrual products, the machine broke down and, like in many rural areas, there were neither personnel nor engineer to repair the problem.
“My thought was, ‘What’s the smallest footprint where there’s no sanitation issues, there’s no place to have fun, and we don’t have to do it twice,’” Farr explained. By partnering with Welch, the pair will be able to distribute enough breakout underwear to cover the women in this Ugandan village from puberty through high school.
“The panties she makes last eight years. If we can distribute them to women at age 10, that will cover them from puberty until they finish high school. It’s a unique occasion,” she continued. “There is no second footprint, there is no need for us to go back.”
With Women’s History Month just around the corner, the topic of menstrual education is even more important, with Farr telling TooFab that it’s time for it to become a standard part of the dialogue.
“I remember the fear in high school that I would probably bleed. Now everyone knows this so that the human race can continue to make girls have an egg. It’s such a common thing, but it’s so secret. I don’t know how it got kind of connected to sexuality, where it almost has that quality of shame, if you’re doing something wrong,” Farr said. “In the spirit of Meghan Markle, in the spirit of people who are truly trailblazers, let’s make this a daily phrase.”
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As for why she’s bringing her 15-year-old daughters, Farr said she hopes that if these women see someone like them, someone close to their age who also uses the product, they will be much more likely to use it themselves. .
“I can stand there and distribute it. No matter what little prestige I need in Uganda, let me spend it this way. But if I can get my 15-year-old daughters next to me, if a 15-year-old girl could stand there and say, ‘Right here, take this. My mother inherited it from me when I had my period, “my hope is that we can start to change the shame around this,” she stated.
Regarding how we will help at home, Farr mentioned anyone who wants to can Donate to Reach a Hand Ugandaso they can reach cities even further away than Kampala and help the women there.
“They don’t participate in the work we are doing. 100% of the donation goes to the range firm for the panties and taxes and delivery. And that. Everyone on base is spending their own money to get there,” Farr shared.
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TooFab also spoke with Farr about Hearth Nationhis CBS series that shows how climate change fuels natural disasters like wildfires and what it takes to stop them.
“The hearth nation is external. It’s like the Earth and what we’re doing to it and everything that has to do with climate change, and how that’s affecting everything from landslides to chemical crops to all our trees falling,” Farr, Who plays Sharon in the collection, defined. “So this kind of earthly, almost national feeling was acquired. There’s a lot of country music in it. Our star and creator, Max Thieriot, is a huge fan of country music, and is in every ounce of it.”
Considering it’s not Farr’s first time in a fiery drama, previously starring Save methis was a challenge she needed to face, telling TooFab that there were “top-notch storylines that she already learned.”
“I wanted to join this show from the moment I read the pilot. They were the best pilots I’ve ever learned. And I probably read a script every day for 25 years,” she said of the show, which was just picked up for a third season, “I didn’t see the ending coming, and part of the ending was who I’m with this protagonist, with this character who would change the world.”
And she or he is hopeful Hearth Nation and the show’s characters will help with just that, serving as a warning to everyone watching.
“One time I was driving to film the pilot — I have three kids, so we drove from Los Angeles to Vancouver and I was going to show them the coast and all the states, and Yosemite was on fire. And it was the first time I saw Cal Fire vans because I live in a city, so I was seeing the urban LAFD,” Farr recalled. “So we were rushing to film this fictional show, and daily there were an increasing number of Cal Fire vans heading to Yosemite. And I don’t even remember the variety of how much it burned. I was like, “We’re really in trouble. We’re going to lose all of our awesome resources if we don’t put some weight behind it. So the hope is that TV will bring more information to people than a textbook, so that we can shed light on this.
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Fire Nation airs Fridays at 9pm ET/PT on CBS.