Vikas Trust

Vikas Trust also prepares sanitary napkins from old cotton clothes, to be used by women from poor families during their menstrual cycle and save themselves from the sex-related diseases. As these poor women lack cotton clothes, Vikas Trust gets these clothes washed using dettol, and then other workers from the Trust prepare the napkins with the help of scissors and sewing machine. If you want to provide your help in this work, your Rs 3,000 can make available five sanitary napkins every month for one year to each of the 50 women for whom you are donating. In this way 100 women are saved from the dreaded sex related diseases, and thus the money to be spent on their health can be saved. This can prevent them falling in debt trap.

Vikas Trust forms self help groups of poor women for their socio-economic development. At present there are about 200-250 SHGs formed by the Trust with around 3000-3500 women members. In addition about same number of women labourers from brick kiln are also linked to the Trust, who does not have clothes to cover their body, leave aside napkins. They are labourers from Bihar and work in Uttar Pradesh brick kilns to make bricks. Here they are living a life of animals. In this way about 6,000-7,000 poor women are linked to Vikas Trust who cannot purchase sanitary napkins as they have the question of fulfilling their daily needs before them. In addition there are same numbers of adolescent girls with the Trust who do not have clothes to wear. So this work is very important in the areas of health for women and girls. Vikas Trust has the community of those women and girls, 80 percent of among which are said to be untouchables, who are facing the problems of spending on their daily needs.