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The Movement Girls missing school due to inadequate menstrual protection

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    • CommentAuthorcharlie10
    • CommentTimeJun 10th 2010
     
    In reading this book I was really interested in the issues surrounding women's health, pregnancy, and menstruation. I think this is an area that doesn't get a lot of attention, and I'm hoping that changes. This book is so inspirational, and I wanted to share with you all about a great social business that is taking strides to raise awareness about girls missing school due to inadequate menstrual protection. It is Sis Hope (www.sishope.com) They are working to give menstrual kits to girls in need, and they sell cute purses and totes made by women. For every bag that is purchased, they give a menstrual kit to a girl in need. They are a lot like TOMS (www.toms.com) which gives a pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair purchased, one for one.

    Anyway, what does everyone think about this issue? Any other great organizations doing anything about it? I'm hoping to see more like this pop up in the next few years!
    • CommentAuthorBuli
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2010
     
    H Charlie

    I hope you are well. What a incident that i get to read about this issue. This one of many things Im thinking of getting involved in. Helping girls from diasdvantaged communites with the matter. Im hoping that with the Grace and Wisdom of God I am able to assist with whatever to help spread the word and really start this movement and help these girl. If possible can you please email me (nombulelomadikane@gmail.com) so we can discuss and see what we can do to help.

    Regards,
    Buli
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    • CommentAuthormoshwan
    • CommentTime7 days ago
     
    See this:
    http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/aug/10/slide-show-1-how-a-school-dropout-empowers-rural-women.htm

    Excerpt:
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    His innovation to churn out low-cost sanitary napkins is a double boon to poor women of rural India: they can lead a hygienic lifestyle and it helps them earn a living too!
    Forty-seven-year-old A Muruganantham does not like to call himself a businessman. The company he has started, Jayashree Industries, supplies machines and raw material for making sanitary napkins. The difference is that his machines go only to poor women in the rural areas.
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    If somehow these cheap sanitary napkins can be taken to all Indian and African NGOs, the world's young girls can go to school without harassment from the men in the family, without fear of what the neighbours might say, without mother having to skip meals, stay sick, just to send the girl to school.

    The crux is this:
    Cheap sanitary napkins are a passport to a decent life, more than a visa to Europe or USA is to middle class women from cities.

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