Free Sanitary Distribution
Only 12% of India’s 355 million menstruating women use sanitary napkins (SNs).
Over 88% of women resort to shocking alternatives like unsanitised cloth, ashes and
husk sand. Incidents of Reproductive Tract Infection (RTI) is 70% more common
among these women.”
The latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2015-16 report shows that the use
of Sanitary Napkins among Indian women is 48.5% in rural, 77.5% in urban and
57.6% total.
As per existing published research across India, the usage of Sanitary Napkins
among rural Indian women ranges between 35% to 57%. It is higher among rural
adolescent girls and goes up to 80%.
Regarding school absenteeism owing to menstruation – 17% teenagers in Canada,
21% in Washington D.C, 24% in Singapore, 26% in Australia and 38% in Texas miss
school owing to menstruation. In India, this number is around 24%.
The reason for school dropouts has nothing to do with Sanitary Napkins or toilets.
For this serious topic awareness is more important that’s why we start the Project