Young people love challenges, and young people just love to learn about how can we solve
the world's greatest problems with, you know, simpler solutions.
My name is Suhani Jalota, and I am the CEO and founder of Myna Mahila Foundation.
We manufacture and distribute sanitary products, that is sanitary napkins as well as maternity
napkins, at the doorstep for women across urban slums in the city of Mumbai.
We reach about 10,000 women currently at the doorstep every month.
So, about 320 million Indian girls do not have access to basic menstrual hygiene management
practices, so this is using sanitary napkins or any other hygienic methods.
And those that have access to sanitary napkins might not have access to accurate information
about sanitary napkins or menstrual hygiene management practices or disposal around it.
So, there's a lot of information that needs to be provided to people, not just in the
low-income communities, in fact, but across the board.
For a woman usually, she places her children at the forefront of her priority, and then
it's the husband, the rest of the family, then the household, household items, the groceries,
and then finally, if there's any mind space left, then maybe herself.
So, we need to concentrate and really try to focus in on the women, and help her understand
how important she is for herself and for the community as a whole.
Forbes 30 under 30 has always been a childhood dream.
It's one of those things that you feel really honored to have also achieved, and as a group
and for the Myna Mahila Foundation, I think what the special thing was that we had no
idea that this is something that would actually help us kickstart and also put us in this
pool of really incredible other folks across the country and around Asia.
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