by Eco Femme | Apr 28, 2020 | Blog, Making the switch
Eco Femme Communications Manager, Natasha, shares her story on switching to sustainable menstrual products for better health. Periods have always carried a negative connotation in my head, largely owing to the painful cramps that keep me bedridden on my first two...
by Eco Femme | Oct 21, 2019 | Blog, Making the switch
Eco Femme ambassador, Jharna, shares her story on switching to sustainable menstrual products and becoming a menstrual health educator. I have always had a decent, mildly painful, only 5 day long period and had no physical reasons to make a switch to sustainable...
by Eco Femme | Oct 21, 2019 | Blog, Eco Femme, Education
It was a first for me when girls were paraded around almost in a walk of shame, simply because of a stain. It was a first for me when we were applauded about talking in whispers about Stayfree and Whisper. As I stood performing my piece on menstruation at a spoken...
by Eco Femme | Mar 13, 2019 | Blog, Education
Eco Femme Pad for Pad facilitator and trainer Nikethana, shares her reflections on giving menstrual health education sessions to girls and women around India. I have been working as a part of Eco Femme’s Pad for Pad programme for more than 2 years now as a...
by Eco Femme | Mar 2, 2019 | Blog, Culture
“Period. End of Sentence.” A 26 minute documentary that looks at women in an Indian village who are donated a sanitary pad-making machine. More recently, the film is making waves for having won an Oscar. source Clearly, it is changing times in India when...