i2u and Fairgaze join hands to distribute sanitary pads
Statistics shared by the National Family Health through their survey conducted in 2015-2016 highlights a major worry for all of us. The alarming statistics state only 36 percent of women use sanitary pads. This means out of 336 million menstruating women only about 121 million women are using sanitary napkins, locally or commercially produced.
In India, more than 300 million women and girls rely on old clothes/rags. Unavailability of safe menstrual hygiene products like sanitary pads is a huge deterrent in creating period positivity, menstrual health awareness, and propagating hygiene practises.
With the intention to make sanitary pads accessible for women belonging to economically weaker sections of the society, i2u Social Foundation (a CSR support initiative working with NGOs) joined hands with FairGaze (a leading school media) to conduct multiple free sanitary pad distribution drives in the slum areas of Delhi and NCR.
The pad distribution drives were conducted under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme by UNICHARM and several NGOs came forward to help with the distribution. The drives benefited people from the underserved communities, Self Help Groups, daily wage labourers, and women and girls from economically weaker sections of the society.
