menstrual hygiene

When doctors dismissed her severe period pain, Lucknow-based educator Zarine Garcia decided no girl or boy should feel the same. Through the Study Hall Foundation, her sessions have reached 4,500 students across rural Uttar Pradesh, breaking years of silence around menstruation.

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After surviving a near-fatal accident, Sandy Khanda founded the Green Pencil Foundation to tackle education, menstrual hygiene, and climate advocacy. His ‘Periods of Pride’ initiative promotes eco-friendly menstrual products and has impacted over two lakh women.

Dr Sabapathy S and professor Anup K Ghosh, two material scientists in IIT Delhi, have developed the Celligo BioSAP, an all-natural insert for sanitary pads that are super-absorbent and eco-friendly.

Growing up in environments that have a general sense of secrecy and shame around menstruation, young women are often pulled into a vicious cycle of misinformation and lack of credible knowledge.

Arun Gupta started Pinkishe Foundation in 2017, a Delhi-based NGO working to fill the gap of access to menstrual hygiene.

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Remarkably, this breakthrough came in a region where some 25 per cent of menstruating women still use old clothes and periods are considered a taboo!

Over 16,000 community soak pits built. Houses in all 263 villages have individual toilets. Over 1 lakh trees planted across 400 acres. And the entire district is open-drainage free, which means no open sewerage anywhere! #ImpactThatMatters #IAS #Governance