Myna Mahila is providing relief | COVID-19

Empowering women to speak about issues they are most afraid to discuss aloud, as the chatty Myna bird. 

We employ women from urban slums in Mumbai to manufacture and sell affordable sanitary pads back into their communities, improving menstrual hygiene, providing stable employment, and building a trusted network. 

We have reached more than 5,00,000 women at the door-step in some of the most vulnerable slum communities in Mumbai, and aim to reach 1 million women by 2025.

Women face challenges accessing sanitary pads: male-run medical stores, unaffordable costs and stigma and shame associated with menstruation.

We employ local women to manufacture sanitary pads and sell them door to door in Mumbai’s slums. 

We reach over 10,000 women a month in the following slum and slum redeveloped areas in Mumbai.

1. Natwar Parekh Compound

2. Govandi slums

3. Indian Oil

4. Lallubhai compounds

5. Vashi Naka

6. Goregaon

7. Mankhurd

8. Kokriagar

9. Kurla

10. Dharavi

11. Chembur

12. Borivali