Rural Empowerment & Community Health
Bringing safe, chemical-free menstrual hygiene to rural India, while creating dignified livelihoods for women in every village we touch.
5
SATELLITE CENTRES
11
STATES COVERED
280+
WOMEN EMPLOYED
4137
VILLAGES REACHED
The Rural Challenge
In rural India, millions of women still use cloth rags, leaves, or sand during their periods. Disposable pads, when available, are expensive, environmentally devastating, and loaded with harmful chemicals. REACH creates a better path.
No Access
Of rural Indian women have no access to safe menstrual hygiene products, relying on cloth, ash, or nothing at all.
School Dropouts
Of girls drop out of school when they begin menstruating due to lack of products, facilities, and stigma.
Annual Pad Waste
Disposable pads are dumped into landfills and water bodies every year in India, taking 500-800 years to decompose.
REACH Solution
Saukhyam satellite centres give villages the tools to manufacture, distribute, and educate, locally and sustainably.
How REACH Works
A four-step model that transforms villages into self-sustaining menstrual health ecosystems.
Satellite Centre Setup
We partner with local organizations, self-help groups, and panchayats to establish decentralized pad-making centres in underserved villages.
Skills Training
Rural women are trained in pad manufacturing, quality control, and menstrual health education through intensive 2-week programs.
Awareness Drives
Trained community health workers conduct workshops breaking menstrual taboos, educating families, and driving adoption of safe hygiene practices.
Sustained Livelihoods
Each centre becomes self-sustaining, local women earn dignified income while producing chemical-free pads for their own communities.
Three Pillars of Impact
Menstrual Health Access
Distributing affordable, chemical-free reusable pads to women with no prior access
Replacing cloth rags, leaves, and ash with hygienic banana fiber pads
Educating families about safe period practices and hygiene
Livelihood Creation
Training rural women in pad manufacturing as a dignified livelihood
Building self-help groups around menstrual health entrepreneurship
Creating local supply chains that reduce transportation costs
Environmental Impact
Eliminating disposable pad waste from villages and water bodies
100% biodegradable banana fiber, zero plastic, zero chemicals
Each woman who switches prevents 125+ kg of pad waste over her lifetime
One Movement, Many States
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Across 9 States
Healing periods and the planet, one community at a time.
2.9 L+
Women Reached
1432+
Schools Covered
1265+
Villages
251+
Livelihoods
4.4 Cr
Disposable pads prevented
1,694t
CO₂e prevented / yr
1,168
Trees equivalent saved
1.8 Cr L
Water conserved
BEFORE SAUKHYAM
AFTER SAUKHYAM
UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS