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Free Days Happy Days
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    Created by

    Ketki Pandya
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    This fundraiser will benefit

    Sarwa

    from Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Ketki Pandya , is the Co- Founder of SARWA set up in 2006 .The aim of the NGO is to give proper hygiene guidance and hygiene help to underprivileged and slum girl and women. SARWA plan to provide a 20000 children,women and young adults in Surat - Gujarat & rural areas around surat through donations received from (SARWA)across the globe. Under her guidance and personal supervision works tirelessly towards transforming the lives of underprivileged rural communities, particularly women and children thereby empowering them to live with dignity and self-respect.There is a lack of awareness about menstrual health and hygiene. Living in a culture of shame and silence, they end up using poor substitutes like rags and ash, or worse they use NOTHING. So main aim of this NGO is to provide better health & hygiene to society.
Project - Free Days Happy Days

Specifications
Only 58% of India’s 355 million menstruating women use sanitary napkins. Over 88% of women resort to shocking alternatives like unsanitized cloth, ashes and husk sand. Incidents of Reproductive Tract infection is 70% more common among these women. According to a study by Times of India 70% of women cannot afford to buy sanitary napkins in India.
The Challenges of being a woman
1. Lack of Closed Spaces
2. Use of Cloth/Paper/Unhygine material over sanitary napkins
3. Lack of knowledge
4. Social Taboos
5. The Silent Treatment
A Noble CauseTo solve this problem, we have started an initiative “Free Days Happy Days” whereby focusing women and adolescent girls, they shall be given a pack of 6 pads every month. There are many problems in women and girls in their starting stages of the menstrual cycle and to provide them education on the same, we have created 5 session program for giving them an understanding of menstrual cycle, using pads and benefits. This movement will make every women and girl participant an important and self-reliant stakeholder.
The challenge is to tackle the age-old taboo - Menstrual cycle - by creating awareness, access to a clean menstrual cycle and thus boosting the confidence of adolescent girls.

Facts and Figures
The Program aims to focus on 20000 women and adolescent girls from different govt and non govt schools for one year. They will be provided free Hygiene Kit with 6 sessions of the educationon menstrual cycle, causes, problems, usage of pads and benefits. The kit includes following:
1. 6 pads of sanitary napkins
2. Sanitiser
3. A Pack of Disposal Bags

The Cost of Each Kit is 60₹ which coves napkins packet price of 30₹

Global Appeal
We would like your cooperation to raise the fund required for giving success to this project.
Your contribution can help our three-fold vision of empowering women through credible information, enabling access to sanitary products with dignity, and fostering livelihood opportunities.

Please consider contributing to help us fight period poverty, educate women on safe Menstrual Health Management, and empower women entrepreneurs in marginalized communities. For further information, please reach out to contact

www.sarwa.org
https://www.facebook.com/sarwa.org/

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