by PARIVARTAN SANDESH FOUNDATION
$10,000.00
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In a country where women have reached the frontiers of space & are achieving heights, basic necessities such as access to clean drinking water, toilets, basic education, fundamental knowledge and products for feminine hygiene are still unavailable to large proportion of female population. Poor sanitation is affecting Indian women a lot. India is almost 32 years in attaining its sanitation goals & the situation gets worse with every year of delay.

Women’s hygiene in India has always been a topic that has courted a lot of controversy and hearsay. Around 70% of all reproductive diseases in India are caused by poor menstrual hygiene and women continue to put their health, livelihood and dignity at risk.

According to Mumbai-based start-up, 88 percent of women use unhygienic material such as newspapers, cloth and husk when menstruating; 70 percent of women suffer reproductive tract infections; and 23 percent of girls drop out of school when they start menstruating due to inadequate facilities at schools. This scenario has changed in the past few years with the Government of India taking a lot of active initiative in spreading awareness about the dire need for having indoor toilets in rural areas.

Women and girls are especially affected by inadequate sanitation because of gender related differences.

Women often bear cleaning responsibilities and in many cases also are responsible for the disposal of human waste. During menstruation, pregnancy and postnatal stages the need for adequate sanitation becomes even more critical and Toilet-avoidance dehydration is a particular health threat. Women are acutely aware of safety and privacy issues associated with the need for sanitation.

There are many socio-economic benefits associated with improved sanitation services including efficiency (that is reduced time due to health and care-giving burdens), safety, improved health, transparency and good governance and empowerment. Gender mainstreaming can empower women to make strategic choices in terms of rights to assets and services, leading to better education and a healthier and productive population and improved social capital.

The current state of menstrual hygiene and sanitation in India is in a pathetic state. As per records, if only 18% women know how to use a sanitary napkin, the unrecorded number would be far lesser than this. “In our research, we found that women did not even know that they were not supposed to wear a sanitary napkin for more than 6-8 hours. Some of them wear it for 12-14 hours a day, making them prone to bacterial infection.

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have also been involved in spreading awareness about women hygiene.

In order to ensure easy access to sanitary products Parivartan Sandesh Foundation (PSF) has launched Women's Healthcare campaign, this initiative includes distribution of free sanitary napkins, workshops on how to make a sanitary napkin, enrolling women to run their sanitary napkin factory, run seminars and classes on menstruation hygiene for both girls and boys and defying menstruation taboos through involving middle-aged men and women in the menstruation hygiene drive.

The article ends by saying that there is an urgent need to move beyond policies providing women with toilets to policies committed to changing the overarching power disparity between men and women. Solutions to the global sanitation crisis begin with transforming toilet insecurity to toilet security.



Public health in India is at the cross roads, facing multiple challenges and competing priorities. The issue of the health status of urban poor in India is one such important issue. India, with its fast growing economy and rapid urbanization, faces the major problem of the increase in urban poverty. The urban population of India constitutes 328 million people. Over one fourth of this population lives in urban slums under poor environmental and sanitary conditions. This results in increased susceptibility to disease and ill health. Trends in urban poverty suggest that the number of urban poor in the country is expected to considerably increase in future. Poverty compounded with compromised environmental conditions results in poor health consequences for the urban poor.
India’s massive population, it would seem, is the largest obstacle to running an efficient state health care plan for the poor. At every stop in the investigation, themes of overcrowding, overworked medical staffs and failing equipment dominated conversations. At smaller rural primary health centers throughout India, the doctor-to-patient ratio can be as high as 75,000 to one, according to the doctors who work there.
With above backdrop PSF launched Mobile Health Unit in April-2013 to provide primary health check-ups with free medicines to slums residents through mobile dispensary. Main focus of this program is to provide health service to women during pregnancy and after delivery during lactic period, infants, children and senior citizens.
Project launch in 2013, PSF is running mobile dispensary to provide primary health check-up & medicines to residents of Slums at Delhi & NCR. Through mobile dispensary poor people get benefit for free of cost health checkup with medicine prescribe through a registered MBBS doctor. Also mobile dispensary provide nutrient supplement to pregnant females, infants and senior citizens to control malnutrition. Through Mobile Dispensary every month about 1200 to 1500 people get benefit from this project

To expand the results of Project HEALTH FOR ALL, PSF established Indradhanush Chartable Dispensary at Nyaykhand-3, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad in 2015 to provide free of cost medical check-ups and medicines to poor people. Hepatitis B vaccination and diabetes medicines also available free of cost at dispensary. Till Dec-2018 approx. 1, 35,000 people get benefit of this project.



Donation Deadline
Wednesday, Mar 31, 2021

Project Website
https://parivartansandeshfoundation.com/index.php/what-we-do/education-school/sanitary-napkins

Project Location
C-26 Sec-61 Near Royal Tower,
Noida,
Uttar Pradesh 201301
India.


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