The menstrual garbage possess a huge challenge for the environment and understanding the fact Jeevan Jyoti a Self Help Group from Maijan T.E, Dibrugarh is raising adequate awareness on sustainable menstrual hygiene in the very tea garden by making handwoven sanitary pads. The specialty about the sanitary pads is-it is reusable, biodegradable and the cost is kept reasonable so that tea garden women could easily afford it. The main objective is to empower women at the grass root level by enabling them to generate income through this new venture. With initiatives like this, where women are using biodegradable materials to make pads, menstruation won’t be a cause to worry about both for the menstruating women as well as the environment.
Cloth Pad designed by the group member of Jeevan Jyoti SHG
A member of the group engaged in making handwoven sanitary pads
Jeevan Jyoti members watching a YouTube video on sanitary pad making in one of the gathering
Teaching the craft of sanitary pad making
Women participating on a group discussion on the process of sanitary pad making
Member of SHG with their final product of cloth pad
