India
Health
Provide sanitary napkins for 200,000 Indian women
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Share & SaveMore Information About this ProjectProject Needs and BeneficiariesWomen commonly use all kinds of rags as sanitary napkins. Menses is one of the most taboo subjects in India. There is a strong relationship between practices during menstruation and the prevalence of reproductive tract infections. In many parts of India women don’t even have enough cloth to cover their body. In villages of Bihar, women don't use anything during menses don’t take a bath for days because there is nothing to change into. Activities- Organizing collection and awareness camps to educate people and to collect cloth for making napkins. - Production of napkins from waste cloth collected from the cities - Organising village level meetings and discussions to spread more awareness Funding InformationTotal Funding Received to Date: $15,996 Additional DocumentationThis project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf). ResourcesWhy this Project is ImportantPotential Long Term ImpactGOONJ is making these women self sufficient, removing their dependence on commercial products. In cities, discussion and debate on is helping mainstream the issue, leading to more people taking up this work & benefiting more women. Project Message
For millions of women, who don’t even have enough cloth to cover themselves, menses is monthly disaster. It’s not enough to tell them about health & hygiene until we give them a physical alternative. Who is Running This ProjectContact
Anshu K. Gupta, Project SponsorAshoka Innovators for the Public Organization
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For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India. When this Project was UpdatedLast UpdatedThis project was last updated on October 16, 2008. Date Added to GlobalGivingThis project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 28, 2006. Latest Update from the FieldUpdate from GOONJBy Meenakshi Gupta - Founder Member, October 16, 2008 01:23 PM GOONJ is working actively in distributing the clean cloth sanitary napkins to the most marginalised women in the far flung villages of India. One of the focus areas†right now are the women†victims of the recent disastorus floods in Bihar where millions of people have been displaced from their homes. GOONJ's cloth sanitary napkin initiative is addressing a very widely needed and ignored requirement. We are tapping different health camps, vans and the women health worker network in the area to reach deep inside the villages. GOONJ ladies undergarments are also being given as an integral part of the napkin programme.A beneficiary from an urban slum shares how she was even using pieces of rugs and even plastic, in the absence of adequate clean cloth. Since she started getting Goonj cloth napkins those days of menses were much more comfortable and there was no fear of catching any disease, as well. Thanks for your support of this project and for helping these women. Read 3 more "Updates from the Field" | Comment on this update How Else You Can HelpSpread the Word on your Profile, Blog, or WebsitePut a widget for this project on your profile, blog or website to turn your friends into givers. Using our widget, it's quick and easy to add this widget to your profile or blog! Get this widget on: |
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