menstrual health

All you have to do is visit the state women and children development department’s ‘Asmita scheme’ portal and pay Rs 182.40!

As I left the giant Himalayan foothills of Kumaon behind me, I couldn't help but be grateful and feel blessed for the opportunity to interact with and learn from the Kumaoni girls.

The hearing-impaired student met the District Magistrate, where she signed to him, asking him for a sanitary napkin vending machine to be installed at Rajnagar Block Hospital.

While we certainly don’t wish to generalise these myths as a reflection of the beliefs of the greater majority, these 14 instances, prove why India needs to have the ‘period talk’ with young boys and men.

With low levels of formal employment in slum communities, Myna employs women and trains them to be entrepreneurs who run franchisee businesses for women’s products.

A survey, conducted with inputs from residents of Jharkhand villages, gives insights into the real situation on the ground.

Girls from slums in Mumbai were quitting school halfway because they didn’t know how to deal with menstruation. Two young women decided to intervene. Today, they are spreading awareness about menstrual health and helping hundreds of girls study as much as they want to.

Shyamsunder Bedekar from Gujarat has come up with a brilliant innovation which has the potential to change many lives in rural India. A low cost sanitary napkin incinerator, which he calls the Ashudhdhinashak, will help numerous women in discarding sanitary napkins in an environment-friendly way. This is how it came into existence.