GOONJ is one of India's leading NGOs, which recycles urban cloth into valuable resources for the rural poor. Some cloth is recycled into sanitary napkins. The issue of menstruation is often a taboo in India, and is seldom discussed in public. Unfortunately, millions of women suffer from various health problems due to a basic access to sanitary napkins. GOONJ has come up with a much needed ecologically friendly solution that needs to be scaled up throughout the villages of India.

1. Not just a piece of cloth..

3. In 2004, GOONJ started opening up this most taboo subject in India and the team started traveling to the Indian villages to understand the reality..

6. Measuring cloth Washing Drying Ironing to make it moisture free Folding The final product Packing of napkins The napkin making process

7. Creating awareness on the subject through village level meetings & discussions . Exhibition and leaflets highlight the connect with a women’s health. Getting women to talk…

8. Women discussing and sharing A briefing among village women

9. Women get to experience first hand a clean cloth napkin Getting a GOONJ napkin

10. GOONJ’s Sanitary Napkin programme is reaching slums and far-flung villages of India In the field

11. Farzana was in tears when she received a pack of sanitary napkins, panties & general clothing from GOONJ : “ We hardly have food to satisfy our meal; Clothing is almost a last priority for us. But the effort made by GOONJ & Astitva has really given us a new life.” (Astitva, is a women’s group based in Uttar Pradesh and an active partner of GOONJ .) The impact

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