Pads4Girls: Help a Girl Stay in School

Pads4Girls: Help a Girl Stay in School

posted by LunapadsVideos on YOUTUBE

Women make use of dirty rags, bark, ash and mud instead of sanitary pads . Why is it that they don’t use the general sanitary napkins we all know of ?The reasons for this dire situation are a lack of awareness, availability, and affordability; not to mention issues that arise with disposal. All of these are coupled with the cultural taboo attached to menstruation in our country where menstruating women are considered to be ‘impure’.

Lets help women and girls come over this cultural taboo.

Take A Stand For Her

Take A Stand For Her

Posted by Sumeet Sharma on Youtube

Comments : India has turned out to be a living hell for women in the past and currently is getting worse as days pass by . Women are no longer safe in the country . Tomorrow it might be your wife , sister or mother , neighbour who may be harmed. Let’s take an initiative and protect women and make India a better place to live for them.

 

Do You Know Who Is Rolling Your Cigarettes In Bangladesh?

Do You Know Who Is Rolling Your Cigarettes In Bangladesh?

Children fill up empty cigarettes manually with locally grown tobacco in a small bidi (cigarette) factory at Haragach in Rangpur district, Bangladesh.

According to a 2012 study by US-based NGO, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, over  45,000 people in Bangladesh are employed in manufacturing inexpensive cigarettes  known as bidis and this number includes “many women and children working in  household based establishments where they make low wages and live in poverty.”

A child fills up empty cigarettes manually with locally grown tobacco in a small bidi (cigarette) factory at Haragach in Rangpur district, Bangladesh.

Image credits Andrew Biraj/Reuters

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