Promote menstrual hygiene in Kanha National park region.

In her visit to the Baigatola and Singbagh villages, one of our team members Archana found that a Baiga woman was using cloth as a sanitary napkin during her menstruation cycle period. Similarly, another member Mitali also observed the hesitancy related to menstruation related topics and lack of awareness among the teen aged girls of a primary school in compounder tola Baihar and majority of them belonged to an indigenous community.  Some of the women living near to the forest areas even reported using soft leaves as tissue papers during those days. It is a common practice among the indigenous women to often use ‘clothes’ during their menstruation cycle period which is not hygienic and can be injurious for their reproductive health. 

Our program R’jo: gift of nature is dedicated to the health and dignity of women. 

Contribute to this initiative if you want to promote menstrual hygiene in the Kanha National Park region. 

We also organise talk sessions especially among the males to break the menstruation related stigmas and clear the misconceptions about the sanitary pads in the rural areas. We do not replace their clothes with the sanitary pads but we provide them ‘cloth pads’ to give them a similar experience.