While the loud appeals to get more women to use sanitary napkins serve welfare and commercial interests, a group of young women from Pune are raising important questions about the costs that women’s bodies and the environment have to bear as a consequence of this practice. The teenaged founders of The Project Amara have been trying to make women move …
VISAKHAPATNAM: Moving towards adopting a more hygienic and environmentally sustainable menstrual hygiene product, many women in the city are gradually shifting to menstrual cups as their preferred mode of menstrual hygiene. The menstrual cup is a bell-shaped structure made of silicon. Founder of Wings for Life foundation— an NGO working for underpriviledged girl children, Jyotirmayi Mukthineni had recently made a …
ALAPPUZHA: Alappuzha municipality’s ‘Thinkal’ project is getting good response .As part of the project, the municipality is giving 5000 menstrual cups free of cost to women in a bid to curb the growing problem of menstrual waste. Alapppuzha municipal secretary S Jahamgeer said that the municipality that kicked off the project on Saturday is now daily distributing 500 menstrual cups …
PATNA: Women Development Corporation (WDC) managing director (MD) N Vijayalakshmi on Tuesday urged people to bust the myth that menstruating women were impure. Addressing a state-level conference organized by the WDC and the United Nations Children’s Fund on the occasion of Menstrual Hygiene Day, Vijayalakshmi said, “This is not just an issue related to women, but involves the society. Men …
