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Period Dignity

evergreen programme

no shame. no missed days. ✦

Period dignity.

A school year without a single missed day.

a girl in school every day of every month

why this exists ↓

In rural schools, girls miss four to seven school days every month from puberty onwards. Twenty percent eventually drop out entirely. We deliver discreet kits and run honest education sessions in the same week. The dropout rate in our partner schools fell from 19% to 3%.

12,400

girls supported

180

schools

19% → 3%

dropout drop

100%

biodegradable kits

meet a real person ↓

Asha

class 9 · government girls school, Bilaspur

Asha

age 14 · class 9 · government girls school, Bilaspur

I went to school every single day this year. Even the days I would have stayed home. I told my friend who was hiding — and she came back too.

Asha lost forty days of school last year — she counted. She had been told she was not allowed in the kitchen, in the temple, near her father, during her period. She had been told to use a piece of folded cotton from an old saree. She had stains. She missed exams. Last September, the kit programme came to her school. The teacher who ran the session sat on the floor and said the words out loud — uterus, bleeding, normal. Asha received six packs of cotton-pad refills, a pair of pyjamas, painkillers for severe cramps. Her best friend Roshni had stopped coming altogether two months earlier. Asha walked to her house that evening and sat with her for an hour. Roshni came back to school the next morning. They sit at the same desk.

here's how →

How it works.

01

Honest education first

A two-hour session, run by women, for girls and their mothers. The biology, the myths, the answers.

02

Annual kit, discreet

Plain bag — twelve months of biodegradable cotton pads, two pairs of pyjamas, painkillers, a wash bag.

03

Refill chain, school-led

Refill stocks held by a senior teacher at the school. Girls can request without saying anything.

more voices ↓

From the field.

I had stopped because the boys laughed. I am back because Asha came to my house.

Roshni, age 14

Roshni, age 14

Asha's best friend, came back to school

Most of these mothers have never said the word "menstruation" out loud.

Sushma Devi

Sushma Devi

session facilitator, our staff

My attendance for class 8 girls went from 71% to 96% in one year.

Headmistress Rekha

Headmistress Rekha

Bilaspur government girls school

from the field ↓

What it actually looks like.

honest answers ↓

Questions, asked plainly.

Cups require running water, privacy, and trust we haven't earned in many of these communities yet. We pilot cups in Class 11+ where adoption can sustain. Pads are the right answer for most schools right now.
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