Life is getting better for Sifa Stone, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) based at Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Dowa District. Stone learned to produce affordable reusable sanitary pads for women and girls in 2025 under a project funded by the Central Emergency Response Fund (Cerf). Kitungano is one of the trained tailors at Dzaleka Refugee Camp. Today, equipped with tailoring skills, Stone collaborates with a small group to train other willing resource-limited individuals so they too can become self-reliant. Thomas Kitungano, another tailor at the overcrowded camp, did not know how to make sanitary pads.