This week, Teesdale School's Rotary Interact Club have been selling homemade red button badges to raise funds to buy reusable feminine hygiene kits for girls in Nepal. The sale, that coincided with International Women's Day on the 8th March has raised well over £100 with buttons still being sold.
The kits allow Nepalese girls to attend school and get a good education rather than stay at home, or even worse, be banished from their homes, which is often the case when they are on their period. Some girls have even been know to die as a result of being banished for several days at a time.
The kits are made by Barnard Castle's Rotary Club members and other Rotary members across the country.
If people want to buy a button and donate to the campaign they are available from the school office and from Café 15 in town and Victoria Dental Practice in Darlington.