Success story: Local production for women, by women Desai Foundation has partnered with Saral Designs for increasing access to high quality and affordable sanitary napkins using Swachh machines. As Desai Foundation is increasing its impact with more production units, we had a chat with Megha Desai, to understand more about their work and their approach which makes them …
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How to start your own sanitary napkin business? We are very close to inflection point as a society when it comes to menstruation. While there are millions of women in many developing countries who still do not have access to pads, there are a growing number of organizations focusing on increasing awareness around menstrual hygiene management and …
1 year later: Impact of GST exemption on Sanitary Napkins Goods and Services Tax (GST) – launched at midnight on 1st July 2017, has been the talk of the nation ever since for various reasons. Though menstruation is still widely considered a social stigma, GST managed to gain a lot of attention for imposing a …
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Talking Periods and Celebrating World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2019 Every year on the 28th day of May, Menstrual Hygiene Day (MH Day) is celebrated all over the world. Well, thats because a menstrual cycle is of 28 days and periods lasts for up to 5 days a month on an average. Menstrual Hygiene is not …
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Looking back at the first 1000 days of Saral Designs When we started Saral Designs three years ago, my Dad told me an old famous saying from the steel manufacturing industry: “Don’t think about breakeven or making money for the first 1000 days of starting your business, but you need to survive long enough to …
What goes behind starting large scale impact projects in South Asia At Saral Designs, we follow 4As approach (Affordability, Accessibility, Awareness and Advocacy) which allows us to not only provide accessibility of affordable sanitary napkins, but also allows us to advocate change that we bring at local level in tier-2,3 towns and/or low income communities …
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Reaching the last mile through our Door to Door model Menstruation is a taboo topic in India, because of which women are unaware of various menstrual hygiene products available in the market. 80% of women in India currently do not use sanitary napkins due to lack of awareness, affordability and access to quality menstrual hygiene products. This not only has an …
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On a Journey of Creating Menstrual Awareness: Social Media v/s Grassroot campaigns R Balki’s Padman is set to release today and there is already a lot of buzz on several social media platforms around the “Padman Challenge.” Bollywood has come out to support the movie by posting pictures on social media with sanitary napkins and adding captions …
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How we exported our first sanitary pad making machine to Bangladesh! Access to menstrual hygiene is a basic human right and the fight to provide this basic necessity to every woman is something we are working towards at Saral Designs. Availability of sanitary napkins is a huge problem in our country, especially since most good quality pads produced, …
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CSR Champions Corporate Social Responsibility is a management concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and interactions with their stakeholders. As per the government mandate, businesses with annual revenues of more than 10bn rupees (£105m) must give away 2% of their net profit to charity. Areas they can invest this …
Saral Designs is a National Entrepreneurship Award-winning Company and a leading machine manufacturer of hygiene products in India. Founded in 2015 by alumni of IITs, Saral has developed India’s first indigenously designed automatic ultra-thin Sanitary Pad making machine, called “Swachh”, with 2 Indian Patents granted.
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