Empowering Hatta: Eradicating Period Poverty in Rural India

May 2024 - July 2024

Are periods natural? Absolutely. 🩸

Yet, in many parts of the world, menstruation is still shrouded in stigma and shame.

Through the Empowering Hatta initiative, I organized an educational menstrual product drive across 30 villages in and around Hatta, India. With the help of community support, I raised over $1,070 and partnered with Saathi Garment Trading LLC to distribute sanitary panties to more than 168 women and girls at Shishu Mandir School, Chatravas Rajpura School, and Navghat.

Beyond distribution, I led workshops focused on breaking taboos around menstruation, promoting hygienic practices, and empowering menstruators to embrace their bodies without shame. I created a special video for the drive, Voices Unmuted, to educate and combat stigma within households.

This project reinforced a simple message: no one should be held back by something as natural as menstruation.