Department of Psychology, Lokmanya Tilak Road the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
Soc Work Public Health. 2020 Mar 2;35(3):73-89. doi: 10.1080/19371918.2020.1738972. Epub 2020 Mar 17.
This article outlines the grassroot level work of Project which creates awareness about menstrual hygiene and has set up self-sustaining production units of low-cost sanitary napkins in rural India. The first section of the article focuses on project Sakhi: its genesis, organizational dynamics, and the complementary use of traditional methods such as folk songs and the modern social media marketing strategies to sustain the project. The eco-friendly incinerator - designed by the founder is illustrated. The second section of this paper focuses on an understanding of the founders' perspectives in the context of the challenges they faced working in interior rural India and the perspectives of the key stakeholders such as the women employees, adolescent school girls, and an associated NGO worker. The impact of the project has been discussed in the context of five aspects: health, employment, revenue generation, environmental considerations, and sustainability of the model in the Indian context.
本文概述了旨在提高人们对经期卫生意识的项目所做的基层工作，该项目在印度农村建立了低成本卫生巾的自给生产单位。文章的第一部分重点介绍了 Sakhi 项目：它的起源、组织动态，以及传统方法（如民歌）与现代社交媒体营销策略的互补使用，以维持该项目。文中还介绍了由创始人设计的环保焚化炉。本文的第二部分重点关注创始人在印度内陆农村地区所面临的挑战背景下的观点，以及女性员工、青春期女学生和相关非政府组织工作人员等主要利益相关者的观点。该项目的影响从五个方面进行了讨论：健康、就业、创造收入、环境考量以及该模式在印度背景下的可持续性。
