A free period has a very different meaning for students of Delhi University’s Lakshmibai College. For, long before Akshay Kumar brought menstruation into living room discussions, it was these girls who had usurped the title of “Padgirls”.
In 2015, three years before “Padman” told the story of a person who introduced lowcost sanitary pads inspired by the pain of his wife, the Delhi collegians had taken up a similar mission to make and distribute sanitary napkins among themselves and to women who could not afford them.
The students began with making 100 pads a month, which has now gone up to 500. The students aim to soon sell the pads for Rs 2 a piece to be able to operate independent of college funding.
Read more of this in a report published in Times of India... May be this can be replicated in other areas too.
