Scale in awareness work does not always come from technology or media. Sometimes it comes from walking into a hall, setting up a screen, and filling every seat.

At a recent large-scale REACH session, over 200 students and staff filled an institutional auditorium to attend a Saukhyam menstrual health awareness programme. The presentation covered the full picture: what reusable products are, why disposables carry hidden health costs, and what the switch looks like in practice. It is rare for a topic like this to fill a room of this size — but menstrual health, when framed as a health, environmental, and dignity issue together, draws exactly that response.

What Large-Scale Sessions Accomplish

A session this size does something a small workshop cannot: it normalises the conversation publicly. When 200 people sit together and hear that painful periods are not inevitable, that disposables carry chemicals, and that reusables are a realistic option — the stigma around discussing menstruation starts to crack.

• Large group sessions signal institutional commitment — not just individual curiosity
• Social proof accelerates behaviour change: if everyone is hearing this, it is safe to act on it
• Q&A at scale surfaces the most common fears and myths — allowing targeted follow-up
• Sessions like this are followed by small-group CARE cohort formations for deeper engagement

“I came in assuming it was going to be a basic hygiene talk. I left knowing I had been making choices without information for years.”

- Attendee, large-scale REACH session