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To: One_Upmanship
Why not make your own ? A man in India has done just that. His goal is to make affordable sanitary pads available for rural women in developing countries.

I believe the guy should be nominated for a Nobel Prize. Interesting chap. He faced all sorts of opposition. Can't post the whole article, but here's a snip.

The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary

A school dropout from a poor family in southern India has revolutionised menstrual health for rural women in developing countries by inventing a simple machine they can use to make cheap sanitary pads.

20 posted on 08/05/2015 4:26:11 AM PDT by csvset
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To: csvset

Thank you for the link to the story of the Indian fellow. Fascinating!!


43 posted on 08/05/2015 6:21:09 AM PDT by dayglored (Meditate for twenty minutes every day, unless you are too busy, in which case meditate for an hour.)
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To: csvset

The guy did an amazing TED talk.
Coming up with an affordable alternative for women, cheap machinery to make it, and now there are women’s coops providing jobs that make an affordable product for women.
And if you don’t use it for feminine hygiene, it can be used as a diaper insert or incontinence pad.


53 posted on 08/05/2015 7:00:37 AM PDT by tbw2
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