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OF
HOPE

Empowering women and girls to

take charge of their menstrual health

For many adolescent girls and women in India, a general lack of This has clearly impacted Nazreen’s personal approach to

awareness and the stigma attached to discussing menstrual menstrual hygiene as she now buys and uses reusable cloth
hygiene acts as a significant barrier to promoting safe and pads stitched by the MHM-run Shakti Stitching Centre. By
healthy menstrual practices. introducing Nazreen and other women and girls in the village to
an easy-to-use technology, such as the matka incinerator, along
Tata Trusts’ Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) intervention
with the use of reusable cloth pads, has helped the Trusts’
aims to change this by fostering greater awareness and
teams to address issues of access, availability, and a ordability
promoting the use of eco-friendly and sustainable MHM practices
of menstrual products in rural and remote communities.
through a supply chain involving local Self-Help Groups (SHGs)

and Cluster Resource Persons (CRPs), who help ensure access to The programme’s promotion of only reusable products
good quality and eco-friendly menstrual absorbents for women with e ective disposal techniques also ensures the
and girls in under-resourced communities. safe disposal of used absorbents, thereby
empowering women to make informed decisions
That is how 22-year-old Nazreen, a resident of Tendava
about their menstrual health.
Alpimishr village in the Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh,
learnt to use a home-based matka incinerator to dispose
disposable sanitary napkins. Attending a session

conducted by CRP Beenu helped
A woman using
Nazreen learn how to create an a matka incinerator
earthen pot incinerator. She also
attended other information sessions based

on the MHM programme’s Social Behaviour
Change Communications (SBCC) campaign.

CLEAN WATER
6 AND SANITATION
PROJECT ALIGNS WITH SDG

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