Sanitary waste is an environmental hazard. Menstrual waste is growing in India. Although there is no official estimate of its generation in the country, a 2011 survey has calculated that 9000 tonnes of menstrual waste, largely used sanitary napkins, is generated in India every month. These sanitary napkins, soaked in bodily fluids, are disposed with regular household waste and often …
To shatter taboos surrounding periods and promote menstrual hygiene, a group of friends in Rajkot designed an affordable DIY pad using waste cloth and taught women in nearby slums and villages how to make them. The project won the Disney Innovation Award in the ‘Large Impact’ category at the ‘I CAN Awards 2014’ organised by Design for Change. A group of …
The campaign is an attempt to break taboo around menstruation and provide women with healthy alternative to cloth. In a unique initiative, three law students in Kerala have come together to provide sanitary napkins to women who do not have access to this basic necessity during menstruation. Sara Fathima (20), Ayushi Dangre (21) and Pritishree Dash (21), all fourth-year students …
Eat healthy, drink some green smoothies and go to the gym – you know the drill. Girls live in a world where being healthy is cool and well, expensive. We check our food’s nutritional value – count the calories and cholesterol percentage because there is this slight obsession not just to lose weight but primarily to be healthy and organic. …
We are really happy to see the issue of the menstrual health and awareness taking up with Indian Media. In today’s papers we’ve read about UGER, a women’s group in Udaipur. A graduate of NID, Lakshmi Murthy, who had been already running Vikalp Design, a social design and communication initiative to talk about sex education, launched a new endeavor in 2011. The Uger project started …
