Is menstrual hygiene the new #SwachhBharat?

Is menstrual hygiene the new #SwachhBharat?If the first two years of the Modi govt were all about its flagship Swachh Bharat programme, the focus seems to have shifted in recent months toward menstrual hygiene managementMeghan Markle at the Myna Mahila Foundation in Mumbai last year.

Another indication of how menstrual hygiene has become a cause celebre: at the recent wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the only Indian NGO in a list of seven chosen by the couple for donations was the Mumbai-based Myna Mahila Foundation, which offers low-cost sanitary pads to women in slums and provides jobs to women who manufacture and sell pads.



Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.




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