By Ray Umashankar | Executive Director
In rural India, girls drop out of school after missing one week of school a month for several months due to problems related to menstruation. Menstuation biology is not taught in schools and more importantly saniatry pads are not available to them. They use newspapers, dirty rags and get sick. Once they are out of school once a week in a month, they fall behind and never catch up. Unsympathetic teachers and lack of support force the girls to drop out. They then become primary targets for traffickers.
ASSET India has decided to tackle this problem in partnership with Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation in their Child Friendly Villages. We have souugh the assistance of Suhani Mohan, an engineer/inventor and founder of Saral Designs. Our intial plan is to distribute low cost sanitary napkins and subsequently establish production units operated by local communities.
in northern Karnataka, ASSET has initiated a program to set up local manufacturing of sanitary pads for distribution among children of ex-sex workers. We have had great success providing interest free loans to ex sex workers for starting income generating business on condition that their daughters and grand daughters continue in school and not enter the sex trade.
in partnership with Prajwala, ASSET Provided computers, uninterrupted power supplies and other teaching materials in middle schools in West Godavari district middle schools attended primarily by children of sex workers. The project has received commendation from the government.
By Ray Umashankar | Executive Director
By Ray Umashankar | Executive Director
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