The Saral Impact

About the Nepal project- Saral started Project Atmabiswas with funding received from Millennium Alliance- round 5 challenge. The project aimed at starting a sustainable and comprehensive model for decentralized production, distribution of sanitary pads and menstrual hygiene education in four municipalities of Kathmandu Valley (Dakshinkali, Godawari, Shankarapur and Tarkeshwor). It was started in June 2019 initially …

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Menstrual Health is important for the well-being of menstruators, half of their life goes in menstruating so it’s important to have safe and healthy periods. Menstrual health is not just physical but it also affects the individual’s mental and social health. Menstruators need proper guidance and education as the absence of this may lead to …

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What is the current situation of COVID-19 in India? According to WHO, as of 14th September 2021, India has reported a total of 33,289,579 confirmed cases with the highest number of cases in a day (414,188) reported on 7th May 2021. From mid-July to the end of August 2021 the daily cases were around 40,000. …

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Co-creating and Building Long-Term Relationships with the Stakeholders Saral Designs works on all spectrums of Menstrual Health Management (MHM), from selling machines to helping in building a sanitary napkin business, to door-to-door sales network to awareness generation. It is our motto to work hand in hand with our stakeholders at each step and we also …

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Pandemic story: Period Impact We are in the middle of a global health crisis that occurs only once in a lifetime. With the onset of Covid-19 and subsequent nationwide lockdown, it is unimaginable to even wonder how many lives were affected socio-economically. Lockdown caused massive privation due to loss of jobs across sectors with 18.9 …

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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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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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