Months later, she was sensible enough to brush her gloomy past aside, get trained in making biodegradable sanitary napkins and find solace in engaging herself in an eight-hour-long job. Like her, six other women at Icha Foundation, Kondakarla Ava near Anakapalle, join the process of making biodegradable ultra thin sanitary pads that goes through various steps before getting them neatly packed. Daily scheduleBased on the orders received, women at the foundation plan their daily schedule. At present, the team, consisting of sole bread-winners and single women, is busy delivering 2,000 packets of sanitary pads a month. Sanitary pads thus produced at the foundation will be bought for ₹35 a pack by VCTPL to distribute them free of cost to municipal and government schools across Visakhapatnam.

Source: The Hindu December 28, 2017 19:18 UTC