Prayagraj: Eight months ago when Padman based in Sangam City, Abhishek Shukla, had established a sanitary bank in Alopibgah, he would not think that his little step will offer great assistance to girls and women who live in slums and women who live in The slums and women who live in slums and women who live in slums and women who live in slums and women.
Help them understand the importance of menstrual hygiene.
Today, this initiative helps 350 strange girls in the city to talk about their menstrual needs and get a pair of free sanitation sanitary noodles every month.
Abhishek, who began educating students from slums and poor families about five years ago, along with several female colleagues, aware of one day that girls who came to get edge doubt and did not want to discuss anything about the cleanliness of menstruation.
When his women volunteered to these girls and learned that they used dirty and rotten clothes during their period, this left Abhishek and his team in a majority worried.
The girls are not open to talking about menstrual hygiene for two years and used to make reasons every time a woman’s volunteer trying to talk to them for this problem.
In October last year, Abhishek decided to write the right strategy to solve the problem and persuade girls and women to ensure the right menstrual hygiene and talk honestly on this problem.
On January 1 this year, he finally founded a sanitary bearing bank at his home when he educated female students from slums and poor families.
“Since I started a bank pad, more than 200 girls became their customers between January and March,” Abhishek said, added “There was no additional to customers during the top of the second Covid wave.
But when Covid cases fell, a large number of women and girls began Join the Bank Pad again.
“Bank Pad has gained popularity among women and women who live in slums and on the outskirts of the city, when they travel 10-20 kilometers to take sanitation pads at no cost from here.
Abhishek said, “We maintain a record of bank customers.
After Bareilly and Ghaziabad, Prasagraj is the third city in the state where Bank Pad offers women’s sanitary napkins and women who are free of charge.” “We have our own volunteers entrusted by maintaining an account and save bearings, “said Abhishek, added,” This project aims to build a bond between all sexes to help remove social tabues around menstruation.
” “In a country where most men (and even women) stretch by mentioning the word menstruation, we need active male participation to regulate low-cost sanitation sanitation in the bank pad for women.
We have been connected with many men who offer sanitation pads to the bank in need hours, “he said.
Girls Walk 10-15 km to get sanitation napkins rather than banks up to prayagraj
