By Ray Umashankar | Executive Director
In rural India, it is estimated that nearly 40% of girls drop out of school due to lack of availability of sanitary pads. Girls use dirty rags, newspaper and other material, get sick and miss school for a week once a month. This causes them to fall behind and school teachers and officials are not helpful in remedying the problem.
Once the girls drop out of school, they become primary targets and easy prey for sex traffickers who are eager to entice them with job offers in big cities and subsequently sell them to brothels.
In the northern part of the state of Karnataka, there is a community of more than 3,500 former sex workers who have rebuit their lives starting income generating businesses. In order to help their daughters and grand daughters stay in School, ASSET India Foundation has approached Saral Designs in Mumbai to supply a Sanitary pad making machine. Community members will be trained in the operation of the machine and pads will be distributed door to door.
Saral Designs was founded by Suhani Mohan, a female engineer who quit a high paying investment banking job to help you g women women deal with menstrual hygiene.
Here are two links to Saral Designs:
https://saraldesigns.in
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5F3D2v2T_vw
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