My name is Manasvi Vaid. I am a 17 years old studying at DPS Greater Noida to graduate from school next year. I am a commerce student with a great sense of responsibility and ambitions. I really love to interact with new people and learn as much as I can from others. Dancing, Painting, Cooking and Reading are my hobbies. I am looking to polish my interpersonal skills further and want to become the voice of the unheard. I am a very creative person who likes to think outside the box. Recently, I designed a class magazine with my other classmates. I want to expand my skills further in communications and marketing. I have always been extremely keen at helping people who are deprived of basic necessities and want them to live a healthy and happy life.

As a girl, I know how essential menstrual hygiene is for women. Girls/Women all around the world, due to lack of awareness, fail to maintain menstrual hygiene. If there is lack of hygiene, it can lead to increased susceptibility to infection and may put girls at risk of being stigmatized. In India menstrual hygiene is still considered as a taboo, due to which most of the female adolescents are not given proper sanitary pads and have to rely on cotton cloths and whatnot. Even if they are aware of sanitary napkins they still don’t buy them because of the high cost of it. The insufficient availability of sanitary pads or their high cost lead them to isolations in places where menstruation is still a taboo. To avoid humiliation and mockery, many girls stay at home from work or school, this adversely affects their education and income. As an economics student, I know how confinement of a woman for six days every month can reduce her efficiency and restrict the number of activities one can do . At this unprecedented time where daily wage earners find difficulty in arranging a two-square meal, menstrual hygiene is kept unattended.

The idea of giving reusable and biodegradable sanitary napkins to poor women has motivated me to be a part of it and be of help to them by funding their cost.