Mission and Goals

MISSION STATEMENT

Our mission is to help remove the shaming and taboos around menstruation and also to reduce the financial cost so that girls and women avoid period poverty, which prevents them from achieving their potential. Our aim in India is to provide packs of reusable napkins to these girls so they can finish their education.

In 2023, UNESCO reported that "in India, around 25 million girls enter puberty every year, and one in five girls drop out of school once they start their periods" [1].

OUR GOALS

Currently, Hanaru has five main goals:

Practical help - providing napkins

We provide girls with packs of five reusable sanitary pads directly within their communities, ensuring they have dependable protection for years to come.

Providing menstrual education

Hanaru helps girls in India by providing them with menstrual education.

Being environmentally friendly

We use recycled fabrics primarily made from plastic drink bottles to make the napkins.

Supporting local production

We train women in India to make the napkins and provide any equipment they need so they can work from home. We monitor the napkins for quality and keep a check on the quantities produced.

Achieving equal access to education

We help reduce the dropout rate of girls who can't access napkins so that they can stay at school longer.