These Warriors Are Raising Awareness About Menstrual Health By Breaking Stigma And Gender Barrier Around Periods
Updated: June 07, 2023 18:55 IST
Meet the menstrual hygiene and health warriors, Ridwana Akhtar and Srinidhi S.U. and their team memebers, who have been breaking the period taboo and senstising the women and men of Kashmir and Bengaluru
Meet Kashmir's ‘Padwoman'Ridwana Akhtar, who is manufacturing sanitary napkins and sensitising women about menstrual hygiene.
A resident of Narupura village in the Anantnag district is manufacturing sanitary pads along with the women of her Self-Help Group, ‘Al'Qaria'
These women are manufacturing and selling the sanitary napkins under a NABARD-aided pan-India project, 'My Pad, My Right'
Al-Qaria is engaged in manufacturing sanitary pads called ‘NISSA', and they sell a pack of eight for Rs 75. The group had been receiving orders for the same from various maternity hospitals and clinics
