When the Nalanda Foundation set up a small sanitary napkin making unit in Ghazipur in east Delhi in 2014, the goal was to give women waste-pickers an alternative livelihood and also spread awareness about menstrual hygiene. Local women would make a living from producing low-cost napkins which they would sell as well as promote.
But for all the enthusiasm that went into setting up the unit, it didn’t do well. . .
