The challenge landscape of sustainable menstrual
health & hygiene management in India:

Women do not use quality
sanitary napkin

88%

A

Lost per adolescent school
going girl per month
due to inadequate
menstrual protection

5-7 days

B

Sanitary waste generated
from 430 Million sanitary
napkins annually

9000 ton

C

Working women miss
2.2 days of work / month
due to reproductive ill-health

31%

D

Accessibility

Even today, a large number of adolescent girls and women do not have access to
safe
and hygienic sanitation measures during their menstruation.

Accessibility

Affordability

High quality Sanitary Napkins as appropriate means of sanitation are
out-of-bounds as
most of the quality products are expensive for economically weaker women.

Affordability

Accessibility

Lack of affordable access to Sanitary Napkins is the key reason for slow
adoption.
Women are forced to resort to unhygienic measures leading to ill health.

Accessibility

The challenges persist primarily for the following reasons:

SAMPPORNA aims to solve these challenges with a focused intervention with the Goals since 2016

> The desired nudge to the young adolescent girls to reduce 'missing school days'
due to lack of menstrual sanitation.

> To reach out the communities to help other women to adopt effective
menstrual hygiene management practices.

  • Catching Them Young -

    Starts in schools with adolescent girls

  • Bringing in infrastructure to address the challenges -

    Addresses aspirations through specially designed Vending Machine and Incinerator

  • Installing Idea of complete hygiene -

    Use of high quality sanitary napkins / towels and safe disposal.

  • High Quality product -

    Napkins manufactured as per ‘Clean Room 10000’ standard of GMP and CE certification.

  • Affordable Product -

    Supply of quality Sanitary Napkins at Rs. 2.50 per piece (nearly 50% cheaper than market)

  • Impacat Monitoring -

    Have a greater impact upon the society about the overall feminine well-being.

  • Empowering Girls as responsible ambassador -

    Encourage them to promote the use of sanitary napkins in neighbourhood.

And setting up SAMPOORNA Microenterprise

Building capacities of women Self Help Group on hygienic packaging of Sanitary Napkins
and distribute in schools and other women groups.

  • Storage & Inventory

  • Premises

  • Hygienic
    packaging
    (Filling & Sealing)

  • Quality Control & Sterilization

IMPACT SO FAR

SCHOOLS

  • 175 schools, 220 installations in 11 districts in West Bengal
  • Missing school days dropped by 25%

MICROENTERPRISE

  • Two micro
    enterprises with women groups, resulting in additional monthly per capital
    income of Rs. 5,000

SCHOOLS

  • 15,000+ adolescent girls
  • 100,000 women family members
  • 100 Self Help Groups catered by the micro-enterprises

SAMPPORNA has adopted scaling up plan

Vision:

Creation of commercially feasible social enterprise to promote sustainable menstrual health
management

MISSION:

  • Reach out 1 million adolescent girls and menstruating women living in marginal areas in Eastern India, Bangladesh & Nepal
  • Innovate ‘Nudge’ as non-verbal communication tools to institutionalize behavioral change
  • Use ICT to develop support network among the user women

INTENDED IMPACTS:

3 Distributed State-of-the-Art Manufacturing Units

75 SAMPOORNA Microenterprises around the Manufacturing Units

3000 women Federation & Cooperatives would be exclusive marketing partners

825 direct jobs & 1200 indirect jobs would be created – predominantly women through Manufacturing Units and Microenterprises

Missing school days reduced by 75%

Significant reduction in DAILY loss (due to menstrual ill health)