Sherise

Empowering India, One Pad at a time

No access to menstrual hygiene is the fifth biggest killer of women in the world

We believe that every person deserves access to essential resources, opportunities, and support systems that enable them to thrive and reach their full potential.

Our mission is to alleviate the burden of menstrual hygiene insecurity among rural women by providing them with access to essential menstrual pads. We aim to foster a country where every woman has the resources she needs to manage her menstrual health with confidence and dignity."

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Menstruation and menstrual hygiene related discussions are still a taboo in the Indian villages and across a large section of the urban society even now. As a result these women and young girls are unaware of the hygiene related practices that they should be adopting and their adverse health impacts on them.

This is a movement affecting millions. Whether you’re most comfortable contributing time to help achieve our goals, money to help us grow, or energy to put pressure on our leaders to change, we need you on our team.

Accelerating ''Bharat" is possible. We’ll prove it.

Our team may be young but aims to improve a problem afflicting the entire country. Rural India needs to supported while respecting our diverse culture.

Mission and vision

Our misson and vision is to create a world where all women have menstrual dignity and advocate for the normalisation of menstruation, and fight against the myths and stigma around it that persist across the globe.

Our Challenges

Without access to proper hygiene products, adolescent girls miss crucial learning days in school - often a week per month - which can result in poor performance on exams, dropping out, and being forced into early marriage.

Right Education

We also recognize the importance of menstrual health education in the communities we serve. Harmful myth and superstition surrounding menstruation, in addition to a lack of access to safe and effective sanitary protection lead to shame and humiliation that keeps girls confined to their households during their periods.

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Ending period poverty, menstrual stigma, menstrual shame and menstrual taboos for the vulnerable girls, women, female inmates and female genders with disabilities.

Give out a pad, save a girl child

Many underprivileged in villages are unable to afford sanitary pads. The women of our society have to face a number of challenges when it comes to menstruation - from the silence surrounding the subject to the shame of purchasing sanitary pads. Our society is still considered orthodox when it comes to menstrual health.

We Organize Impactful Programs

Explore Sherise Foundation's transformative programs, championing menstrual hygiene, women's empowerment, and destigmatizing periods, one initiative at a time.