pads

Since its inception in 2017, the brand has seen a growing body of customers and a retention rate of 60% - a sign that more women are making the choice of a safer, healthier period.

Hari Prasad, the village head, observed that a few girls had stopped attending school in the middle of the term without any explanation or warning. He found this to be very peculiar, and when he tried to find out why this was happening, he realised that menstruation was the reason.

Young women have brought about a change in the mindset of rural men and women in Assam about menstrual hygiene and steered the women towards better hygiene with reusable cloth pads. Abdul Gani takes a closer look.

In many communities, women are socially ostracised in the days of their period, their mobility is restricted, they are considered impure, and are not allowed to worship or enter the kitchen.

We all know that plastic bags come at a very high cost to the environment and negatively affect human health as well, so what if you had an option to carry your sanitary pads around in a pretty bag?

Ushering in 2018, the Railway Women Welfare Association of Bhopal installed the machine and christened it ‘Happy Nari.’

They produce and distribute eco-friendly and affordable sanitary napkins

The permitted size of the bat is now defined, with the width and length unchanged, but with added restrictions on the thickness of the edges (40mm) and the overall depth (67mm). Umpires will be issued with a new bat gauge, which they can use to check a bat’s legality.

"Do you know anything about how rural women manage when they are on their periods?"

“Think about how we feel when we sit down to eat our lunch or even cook a meal for our family. We use the same hands to segregate your waste and then to eat and cook. Would you be able to handle it?”