Meet The Pad Woman

Suhani Mohan is taking sanitary pads to women at large and making them aware of menstrual hygiene.

- Ajita Shashidhar

Talk on the sad state of female hygiene in India, in 2012, by Magsaysay Award winner and Founder of the NGO Goonj, Anshu Gupta, changed the life of Suhani Mohan. Till then, for the 28-year-old Mohan, the idea of giving back to society was limited to participating in corporate social responsibility activities of her employer. Gupta’s shocking stories about how a large majority of women used the same cloth during menstruation and how some of them died of tetanus due to this were an eye-opener for the founder of Saral Designs – a sanitary pads company.