by Arunachalam Muruganantham
It’s a good change to see the leaders across the world finally understood the importance of menstrual hygiene and women’s health for the development of their respective countries. They are announcing various initiatives in their election manifesto..
Recently Mr. Sajith Premadasa, Presidential candidate, Sri Lanka talked about affordable menstrual hygiene awareness.. He is the Minister of Housing Construction and Cultural Affairs. He is happy to be called as PadMan and promised to give free pads to women and girls..
It’s high time the leaders of the nations become the ambassador for Menstrual Hygiene Awareness..
Now Bangladesh also roped in to spread affordable menstrual hygiene awareness for the refugee women and girls.
Arunachalam Muruganantham (Padman) is a social entrepreneur from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India. He is the inventor of a low-cost sanitary pad-making machine and is credited for innovating grassroots mechanisms for generating awareness about traditional unhygienic practices around menstruation in rural India. His mini-machines, which can manufacture sanitary pads for less than a third of the cost of commercial pads, have been installed in 23 of the 29 states of India. He is currently planning to expand the production of these machines to 106 nations. The movie Period. End of Sentence. won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) for the year 2018.
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