Meet Surat's 62-Year-Old 'Padwali Dadi' Who Has Made Hygiene A Priority
We live in a country where women depend on unhygienic alternatives like cloth, ash, sand and husk while they are menstruating. Women neither have access to sanitary napkins nor have much knowledge of it, but an elderly couple - Meena Mehta and Atul Mehta from Surat is walking the extra mile and distributing hygiene kits for free.
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‘I am 62 and I can work for 10 more years. I appeal to the people of India to come forward and start with something like this. Start by helping 5 girls and then slowly and gradually increase the number. The problem is not something new, but it needs to be addressed', says Meena.
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Apart from distributing hygiene kits, the couple is working towards creating awareness about Menstrual hygiene. One of the things that the couple is doing in this regard, is to book tickets for Akshay Kumar's soon to-be-released film on this subject - Padman and show it to young girls, women and men of Surat.
