I'm hoping it's OK if I post an update to my post of a few weeks ago offering some as-new underpants for someone with a stoma bag, in case it could prove useful to other freeglers in the future.
So many freeglers replied to my post, suggesting all manner of possible takers, but still I drew a blank. However, I eventually found a place that can make use of them: Hamlin Fistula UK, which will send them to a hospital in Ethiopia that treats and rehabilitates women who have been injured while giving birth, and have often been driven from their homes as a result. (Basically, the women have suffered a fistula, a hole between the birth canal and the bladder or/and rectum; urine and/or faeces leaks through the hole, the women smell really bad and - despite all they've been through already and their situation being no fault of their own - they're often ostracised by their communities, which view them as 'unclean'. Oh, and did I mention that nine times out of 10 the baby was stillborn as well?)
I know this isn't the usual sort of freegle post, but, like I said, if the mods are OK about it, I just wanted to let all the kind people who got in touch with me before know that - eventually - my post has had a happy outcome, and should anyone ever be looking for a new home for stoma underwear, Hamlin Fistula should be worth a try.
