12 Months. 12 Periods. One Act of Support.
Awareness lasts a day. Periods come every month. This Menstrual Hygiene Day, help ensure that a girl can manage all 12 periods she’ll experience this year with dignity, confidence, and access to essential menstrual products. Because menstrual health isn’t a one-day conversation. It’s a year-round necessity.
Fieldnotes from Mynas: Walking with Aliya | Myna Mahila
At Myna Mahila Foundation, I’ve seen the transformative power of a positive organizational culture…
Myna Mahila turns 10!
Ten years ago, in the slums of Mumbai, I met Priya. She had a painful vaginal infection—something easily treatable at a nearby clinic. But shame kept her quiet. She went untreated for over two years. Not far from her, I met a mother who told me “respectable” women don’t work. She married off her 17-year-old […]
Myna’s november newsletter
At Myna Mahila Foundation, I’ve seen the transformative power of a positive organizational culture…
Amrita is a Change Maker
Aunty Red’, ‘Aunt Flo’, ‘Code Red’, ‘Leak Week’, just a few of the many names used to describe menstruation…
Chandrakala
I grew up believing our family was cursed and I would never get a right direction in life…
Jessica’s Raksha Bandhan at Myna
Brothers listening attentively during ‘Sponsor A Sister’ at Myna “This Raksha Bandhan…
Azmati Tackling Period Taboos
As a child, I grew up loving to play outside, I was a bit of a tomboy. Slowly, fewer and fewer girls…
Myna Shop
Located in the populated Shivaji Nagar rehabilitated colony, the Myna factory stands as a safe haven for the team of women that…
