We firmly believe like all others that healthy citizens are key to healthy and prosperous nation. From very beginning, we realized that women and adolescent girls of urban slums and rural areas suffer the most in terms of reproductive health. Their reproductive health problem can be attributed to a large extent to the unhygienic and unsanitary conditions that they live in.
During the menstrual periods, women are introduced to various reproductive tract infections. Its high incidence can be further attributed to lack of privacy, lack of access to clean water or toilets or bathrooms, non-availability of low cost options such as sanitary napkins and myths and misconceptions regarding menstruation.