I thought I was sick with something very serious and began crying," she told me when I visited her home in Kathikhera village not far from Delhi earlier this week. She works in a small factory in her village that makes sanitary pads and is the protagonist of Period. Just 115km (71 miles) from Delhi, Kathikhera village in Hapur district is a world far removed from the glitzy malls and high-rises of the Indian capital. With so much stigma surrounding the issue, it's no surprise that Sneh had never heard of periods before she started getting them herself. But things began to change when Action India, a charity that works on reproductive health issues, set up a sanitary napkin manufacturing unit in Kathikhera.

Source: The Star February 24, 2019 10:07 UTC