Project Baala

Imparts education and creates awareness modules to impart holistic menstrual education in the form of direct workshops, training and videos. Empow Read moreers women with a sense of self-confidence with proper information about menstruation and menstrual hygiene practices. It helps curb inhibitions of rural women caused by social stigmas connected with it and rejects myths and taboos. It helps the environment by introducing affordable, biodegradable, reusable and environmentally friendly sanitary napkins. Provides affordable pads to the poor for better hygiene habits during mensuration. Generates awareness in other sections of the community also such as athletes, men and boys, teachers, factory workers and coaches. Involve rural women entrepreneurs as associates to spread and sell sanitary pads and thus provide them income opportunities. Claims to have conducted 1,100 plus workshops to generate awareness and livelihood. Works in orphanages, government schools, public schools, private schools, slums, village Anganwadi centers, monasteries, and vocational training centres to educate girls and women to deal with menstruation in an effective way. Claims to have impacted and benefitted the hygienic menstrual protection of 1,25,000 girls and women in India, Nepal, Tanzania and Ghana. Further shares that it works across 14 states in India with the following mentioned details: 300,000 women and girls are impacted. 2,60,000 trucks of menstrual waste prevented. 3,90,000 pads distributed. 24.3 million tonnes of non-biodegradable wastes prevented from entering landfills.