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Lakhs of women have had no sanitary napkins during Covid-19 - Donate reusable pads, support them to have a safe period

₹ 1,000

tax benefit: 50%

Help women in need to have a hygienic menstrual cycle

Only 36% of India’s 336 million menstruating women use sanitary napkins. And with the Covid-19 crisis, this number has gone down rapidly. Menstrual hygiene has been forced to take a backseat during the times of Covid-19. Struggling to get even one meal a day, many women have gone back to practices of using ash and hay covered in rags during their period. Plus, adolescent girls from poor backgrounds have lost access to pads supplied to them in school, which have been shut since the first lockdown was imposed. This puts women and girls at risk of contracting cervical cancer, Hepatitis B and various infections of the reproductive and urinary tracts, to name a few.

Solution

As a long-term solution to this burning issue beyond the timeline of the pandemic, our NGO partners are manufacturing reusable sanitary napkins or cloth pads to support better menstrual hygiene for women from low-income groups.

We have identified migrants, daily wagers, slum-dwellers, women working under the MNREGA scheme, tribal women, and women living in slums in and across semi-urban and remote villages of Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu who need help during their monthly cycle.

Your support can help our NGO partners provide a pack of reusable sanitary napkins, to women and adolescent girls in need.

Just INR.200 for a kit of reusable pads, can help one woman with proper menstrual hygiene. The kits contain multiple pads/inserts. The pads in the kits are made of reliable cloths such as bamboo charcoal and unbleached Corra cotton and come with PUL leak-proof layers that enable the pads to last many monthly cycles.

The washable napkins don’t just ensure menstrual health but are also environment friendly and provide employment opportunities to disadvantaged women, engaging them in hand-stitching the reusable pads.

Lakhs of women have had no sanitary napkins during Covid-19 - Donate reusable pads, support them to have a safe period

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Help women in need to have a hygienic menstrual cycle

Only 36% of India’s 336 million menstruating women use sanitary napkins. And with the Covid-19 crisis, this number has gone down rapidly. Menstrual hygiene has been forced to take a backseat during the times of Covid-19. Struggling to get even one meal a day, many women have gone back to practices of using ash and hay covered in rags during their period. Plus, adolescent girls from poor backgrounds have lost access to pads supplied to them in school, which have been shut since the first lockdown was imposed. This puts women and girls at risk of contracting cervical cancer, Hepatitis B and various infections of the reproductive and urinary tracts, to name a few.

Solution

As a long-term solution to this burning issue beyond the timeline of the pandemic, our NGO partners are manufacturing reusable sanitary napkins or cloth pads to support better menstrual hygiene for women from low-income groups.

We have identified migrants, daily wagers, slum-dwellers, women working under the MNREGA scheme, tribal women, and women living in slums in and across semi-urban and remote villages of Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu who need help during their monthly cycle.

Your support can help our NGO partners provide a pack of reusable sanitary napkins, to women and adolescent girls in need.

Just INR.200 for a kit of reusable pads, can help one woman with proper menstrual hygiene. The kits contain multiple pads/inserts. The pads in the kits are made of reliable cloths such as bamboo charcoal and unbleached Corra cotton and come with PUL leak-proof layers that enable the pads to last many monthly cycles.

The washable napkins don’t just ensure menstrual health but are also environment friendly and provide employment opportunities to disadvantaged women, engaging them in hand-stitching the reusable pads.