Shortly after Didi was introduced to Menstrual Cycle Awareness, inspired by all it had brought to her life and wellbeing, she started sharing this newly discovered wisdom with women around her and on the online community she guides as leader of the PanaceAM Foundation and its ‘Mujer Despierta’ (Awakened Woman) movement. The reaction was always the same: “Why did we not learn this before?”
As this question internally transformed into: “What can I do to spread the positive experience of the cycle to young girls?” the answer was provided when she came across Jane Bennett’s work: Celebration Days for Girls and Jane’s question on her website: “What does it mean to be a woman in this world today?”
A mathematical engineer who cut short her PhD to follow her heart’s desire to do something for the suffering humanity (and the animals and all else of creation), Didi left her career and comfort zone to dedicate her life to helping others, through the intuitional practices of yoga and meditation on the one hand and social service projects on the other.
Embracing the world as her home and all as her family, she has worked and lived in over 40 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Far East Asia and South America, where the common experiences lived by women, regardless of culture and circumstances, gave her the chance to channel her passion for social justice in a very clear direction: women’s wellbeing.
However, Didi realised that in her work, and in general in the work of women’s empowerment and self-realization, there had been a missing link with young girls on their journey to womanhood. The Celebration Day for Girls and Menstrual Education fill that gap perfectly and she is both honoured and humbled to play a small role in that journey.
After hosting the Celebration Day for Girls as Outreach programs – free of charge – to underserved communities, mainly in rural Colombia, Didi organized and hosted the first Facilitator training in South America in 2023 and is beyond pleased that the team of facilitators in Latin America is ever growing.
Because, although she loves hiking with her dogs, regular classes of Capoeira and every now and then training for a half marathon, there is nothing that fulfils Didi more than seeing girls and women grow and transform their lives, becoming their wonderfully feminine, strong and happy selves.
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