Summary:
Ananya Jain, a grade XII student at Lotus Valley International School Gurugram, organized a menstrual hygiene awareness and menstrual cup distribution drive for domestic help at her society on 13th April 2021. As an active member of the NGO Pure Hearts, which has pioneered ‘Meri Pehchan’- an awareness campaign on women and menstrual hygiene, Ananya had participated in several such drives in the past. Taking her passion forward, she organized a drive in her society to spread awareness about the importance of menstrual hygiene as well as the role that menstrual cups play in women’s health and in overall environmental sustainability. The primary motive to conduct this drive was to make women aware of healthier, cheaper and environment friendly alternatives to sanitary napkins. It is her belief that awareness alone can help us incorporate sustainability into our daily regimen, bringing about overall environmental sustainability - making the environment plastic-free..