Pad gang conducts workshop on making of sanitary napkins

Our Correspondent
Jalandhar, October 16

To make the female workers in private schools self- reliant, the two city-based schoolgirls, aged 15 and 17 years, have started a hygiene campaign named ‘Stop the Spots,’ on how to make sanitary pads easily at home, at Mayor World School, here today.

Jaanvi Singh (15) and Laavanya Jain (17), the initiators of the campaign, have been visiting slums to distribute sanitary napkins and other sanitation-related material for free. Besides, they are also educating the poor and illiterate women about menstrual hygiene and encouraging them to shift to pads rather than using unhygienic substitutes.

In the workshop, Jaanvi Singh, along with Lavaanya Jain, showed the women how to make pads and also explained them the consequences of using cloth and other things attached to the issue of menstruation.

Vice chairperson of the school Neerja Mayor, while interacting with students especially boys, asked them to be empathetic towards women-centric issues and break the taboo. Appreciating the boys who were associated with the pad gang, the teachers of the Mayor World School asked all the boys to come forward to sensitise people to take this campaign at National level.

Meanwhile, the padgang also said the helping staff took great interest in learning how make the pads and had invited the group members of the pad gang to come to their colonies to disseminate knowledge regarding the menstrual hygiene and to distribute pads among other women.

Though matters are worse when it comes to health and hygiene of women in the country, persons such as Jaanvi and Laavanya have been doing their bit to spread awareness among women. The pad gang also celebrated the ‘World Food Day’ with helpers and staff members and took them out to a Subway outlet.