Hyderabad: FICCI Ladies Organization (FLO), Hyderabad Chapter embarks on a new initiative “Women’s Happiness Kits”. The hygiene kits will be distributed free of cost to girls studying in the government schools and also the girls living in shelter homes. One thousand kits will be distributed at a total cost of Rs three lakh.
In a pressnote here today, Priyanka Ganeriwal Arora, FLO Chairperson said they came up with a novel idea of Hygiene Kits, adding that “conversations about personal hygiene and menstruation are still taboo in the country”. Called “Women’s Happiness Kits Priyanka said sanitary kit can boost the quality of girls education in government schools.
She said, “Menstruation until now was personal and private matter. Moreover, there was no choice to seek solutions from outside the world. Now we have pads/kits developed. We have low cast sanitary kits made available at the least cost possible. Akshay’s film like Padman talks opened the subject. Now we have a choice. Having a choice is one of the highest forms of empowerment”, she added. (NSS)
