About 140 police stations throughout Mumbai are set to receive sanitary napkin vending machines as part of the Mumbai Police welfare initiative ‘Smart Maitrin’ project ...
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Menstrual Hygiene
Menstrual Hygiene
On International Women’s Day, a sanitary pad manufacturing unit was launched at Jail number 6 of Tihar Jail in Delhi, for the production of low cost, biodegradable sanitary pads ...
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The short film, ‘Period. End Of Sentence.’ backed by Indian producer Guneet Monga's Sikhya Entertainment, is the story of women of Uttar Pradesh’s Kathikera village who fight against all odds to ensure menstrual equality, meaning access to menstrual hygiene for all, in their village ...
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In January 2017, a low-cost machine invented by social entrepreneur Arunachalam Muruganantham, popularly known as 'Pad Man', was set up in the village to produce sanitary napkins which started the conversation around menstruation ...
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"Menstruation is not a disease, it’s a procedure. If we talk about this openly then we can make lives of women safe in the coming days," said Suman, featured in India-based documentary 'Period. End of Sentence' ...
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The 26-minute Oscar award winning documentary is produced by Guneet Monga and follows a group of women in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh who lead a quiet revolution as they fight against the stigma of menstruation ...
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26-year-old Chitransh Saxena from Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, started a PadBank in June 2018. 148 girls in the city are getting free sanitary pads every month from the bank ...
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Guneet Monga, producer of the Oscar winner documentary ‘Period. End of Sentence.’ Feels a shift or change will happen when the education ministry will get involved and take the film to every school and college ...
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Odisha Government approves a fund of Rs 466 crore for Khushi scheme that will be providing free sanitary pads to government and non-government-aided school across the state and benefit approximately 17 lakh girls ...
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From practising in-house composting, ditching plastic items to switching to a menstrual cup, here’s how T. Lalita from Mumbai is changing her lifestyle to manage waste at an individual level ...
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The film, ‘Period. End Of Sentence’ shows the women of UP’s Kathikera village produce ‘Fly’ sanitary napkins despite the stigma and challenges associated with menstruation ...
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104 government-run schools in Vadodara, Gujarat will get sanitary napkin vending machines and incinerators for free to promote menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls ...
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