Pink Pad Project

Meeting the hygiene needs of all adolescent girls is a fundamental issue of human rights, dignity, and public health,”

- Sanjay Wijesekera, Former Chief of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, UNICEF

For the PinkPAD project we have done an extensive assessment (see summary included below) of both the need and the best and most environmentally beneficial materials to make the PinkPAD hygiene napkins used for menstration.  Since our last report we have completed the building of the PinkPAD House.  It is a three-story facility that will house the machine to make the PinkPADs and kit that will supply each female with a years supply to meet their monthly needs, and provide the room needed for an office and a place for volunteers and workers to live.

Summary of the questions asked and answered:

• Are sanitary pads popular in India?  Only 12% of the 355 million Indian women use sanitary napkins.  A shocking 70% of Indian women claim they cannot afford sanitary napkins.
• What do they use, if not pads and tampons 88% of women resort to and implement home-remedies with alternatives like old fabric, rags, sand, ash, wood shavings,newspapers, dried leaves, hay and plastic.

PinkPADS Kits are a straightforward solution to a complex problem. All PinkPADS  are high quality sanitary napkins that are biodegradeable & environment friendly. Manufactured with love in Dhradun, India by the villagefolk of Bandawala.  Each PinkPADS Kit lasts a maximum of 12 months. This gives girls and women the freedom to live their lives to the fullest by allowing them to stay in school and at work with sound mental, physical and emotional health.  The PinkPAD executive team that will run this project is composed of young women that have grownup and been educated at C.E.D. House.  Indeed it is from these women born in remote villages educated me on what should be in the PinkPAD kit.  It is clear that this is a necessity for human rights and dignity.

We are at the launchpad for PinkPAD.  We are now raising funds to stock the raw materials for production of the PinkPADS and the funds to distribute them to the women of all ages in need.  These young and older females are part of the "never-served."  Our overall goal is to reach as many women as possible with an empahsis on serving 83,000 femailes that are disabled in the Indian state of Uttarkand.

GREAT IRONIES Correction –
*These women are at a high risk of reproductive tract infections.
Why Impure?
If women are so impure, how is someone like you who is pure & born of a woman allowed to enter a temple and she isn’t?


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“I have dedicated my life to better the lives of my fellow human beings. I believe it is a universal responsibility to translate compassion into action. Social constructs like status, caste, colour and race often stand as barriers to opportunities and future possibilities for children.
It is for that reason that I built the Children’s Education Development (C.E.D.) Society.”
- Lama Tenzin Choegyal