Several years ago, when Helen Yenser was a senior at Oakwood School, a private K-12 school in North Hollywood, she stood up in front of her class and talked about menstruating. “After I gave my ...

To provide financial support and better health to women inmates, a sanitary pad making machine was installed on the premises of the women’s prison. To provide financial support and better health to ...

The cost of the machine is Rs 1,00,000 and it has the capacity to produce 1200 pads in a day. Two engineer brothers in Udaipur have come up with a low-cost sanitary pad-making machine which they claim ...

A film based on young women in an Indian village who make sanitary pads has won an Oscar for best documentary short. The BBC's Geeta Pandey met the women in their village before the ceremony. Sneh was ...