Provide sanitary napkins for 200,000 Indian women
India women
Summary
Poor women use the dirtiest rag in the house during menses. Most don’t even have enough cloth to cover themselves. We provide clean sanitary napkins made of repurposed waste cloth (from the cities).
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Women 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 Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $16,491
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $10,508
Total Funding Goal: $27,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
Resources
- Project's External Homepage (http://www.goonj.info/)
- Project's Homepage (http://www.goonj.org/)
- Ashoka's Homepage (http://www.ashoka.org/)
- News article (http://www.hinduonnet.com/mag/2005/08/28/stories/2005082800100400.htm)
- News article (http://www.outlookindia.com/mad.asp?fodname=20040126&fname=Making&sid=1)
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
GOONJ 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.
- Anshu K. Gupta, Founder Director
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Anshu K. Gupta
Founder-Director, GOONJ
J-93, Sarita Vihar
NEW DELHI, New Dehi 110076
India
011-2697 2351
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Organization
GOONJ
J- 93
Sarita Vihar,
New Delhi
110044
India
2697 2351
http://www.goonj.info
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Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
India
and can also be found under 
Health.
For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 28, 2006
Latest Update from the Field
Update from GOONJ
By Meenakshi Gupta - Founder Member, October 16, 2008 01:23 PM
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.
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