Our Sanitary Napkin

Taking care of yourself during menstruation is as important as taking care of your day to day activities. A little negligence in menstrual hygiene management can cause your body grievous harm, and you may also act as an instrument for the spread of infection to others.

Even in today’s age, when several menstrual hygiene products like sanitary napkins, tampons, and menstrual cups are available; 88% of Indian women don’t use the most basic form of menstrual protection available in markets. Instead many use old rags, muds, leaves or anything they lay their hand on to collect menstrual blood. Least to say that how much inconvenience and health risks do such women face for not having access to sanitary napkin for periods.

Taking about menstruation is a taboo in most societies, and this contributes to the ignorance and illiteracy on menstrual hygiene management. Using old clothes and other traditional unsafe methods to deal with menstruation hampers mobility and day to day activity of women. The result is that they have to miss out on work, schools as well as other daily commitments. Around 23 million girls drop out of school every year at menarche in India. It is a shameful situation in which due to lack of affordable sanitary pads, menstrual awareness and lack of facilities to change sanitary towels in those
organisations render it impossible for women to go out without the fear of staining or embarrassment.