PATH, the Seattle-based NGO and fellow SuSanA partner has a good introduction to the importance of menstrual management in global development. Without addressing this, girls will drop out of school, position of women won’t improve and equitable, sustainable development becomes an impossibility. The fascinating technical aspects of developing products to meet this need are presented in the TEDxRanier presentation by PATH staffer Nancy Muller.
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Teaching Ecological Sanitation and Menstruation Management in Schools. This kit of manuals, presentations and fact sheets by Peter Morgan and Annie Kanyemba includes the book, nine factsheets and 35 presentations on ecosan in schools, and A Guide to Menstrual Management for School Girls.
Recent studies on Menstrual Management for school girls in Zimbabwe. Annie Kanyemba of Aquamor covers progress and lessons learned in 4-min video.
Danish company gets Sida grant to sell menstrual cups in Kenya. The cost of sanitary napkins and tampons is two fold. First, African school girls can’t afford them. Second, they create one more waste product that needs to be composted or disposed of. The answer is a reusable cup.
An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry When Arunachalam Muruganantham decided he was going to do something about the fact that women in India can’t afford sanitary napkins, he went the extra mile: He wore his own for a week to figure out the best design.
