A sizeable population of rural Madhya Pradesh lives on less than one USD a day i.e. about INR 72. An average sanitary napkin costs INR 6. Assuming that the woman will change her pad thrice a day to maintain optimal hygiene standards, she will spend INR 18 each day that she is menstruating. For thousands of families, this is a cost that they cannot bear. Circumstances do not allow them to perceive buying sanitary napkins as an investment or necessity; rather, they are a luxury they cannot afford.
Sukarma Foundation’s Sanitary Napkin Manufacturing Mini Factory located at Narsinghpur is changing all that. The mini factory is the result of two years of painstaking research and multiple visits to start-ups manufacturing sanitary napkins by the Chairperson of Sukarma Foundation.
With 10-12 women from local communities helming the...Read more