by Eco Femme | Feb 23, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Projects page.
Men in menstruation – are we addressing the elephant in the room? Conversations with men can reveal a lot… “Women never include us in menstruation matters. They talk in whispers and codes all the time” “A woman is impure during menstruation. I will not touch my...
by Eco Femme | Feb 12, 2018 | Blog, Culture
Continuing the conversation Padman: it hardly needs an introduction. The film, inspired by the life of Arunachalam Muruganantham, has punched a long overdue, pad sized hole in a subject typically defined by shame and silence: menstruation. After discovering...
by Eco Femme | Dec 11, 2017 | Blog, Making the switch
Kavya Menon, a biotechnology graduate from IIT Madras, worked with rural communities to understand the need for menstrual hygiene, addressed taboos and introduced simple home remedies during her SBI Youth Fellowship tenure. Currently, she resides in Chennai, and...
by Eco Femme | Nov 7, 2017 | Blog, Eco Femme
Did you know that with every pad you buy, you contribute to subsidising the price of pads sold to economically disadvantaged women in India? Our Pads for Sisters programme was launched in 2013 to make our cloth pads economically accessible to women who...
by Eco Femme | Sep 11, 2017 | Blog, Culture
From 5th – 20th July 2017, Kathy Walking, Nikethana Venkatesan and Mamta Kandari represented Eco Femme, Auroville on a visit to Zanskar Valley, Ladakh in collaboration with Roots Collective, an NGO based in Ladakh. The organisations Zanskar Adventure Point and...
