In the crowded lanes of urban slums, where families live in cramped rooms and daily survival is a struggle, menstrual health is often the last priority. Amid rising rent, food insecurity, and job uncertainty, there’s a silent crisis that affects millions of women and girls every month—Period Poverty. At the Nitish Sahay Foundation, we’ve worked…
In the quiet villages and overlooked communities of rural India, a silent struggle continues every month—the struggle for menstrual dignity. Girls miss school. Women suffer in silence. Old rags, ashes, and even newspapers are used in place of sanitary pads. But change is possible—and it’s already begun. Through our flagship campaign Pad The Way, the…
Menstruation is a natural biological process—yet for millions of girls and women in India, it remains shrouded in stigma, misinformation, and shame. At the Nitish Sahay Foundation, we believe it’s time to break the silence and make menstrual hygiene a priority, not a taboo. For too long, conversations around periods have been whispered behind closed…
