This paper is published in Volume-5, Issue-5, 2019
Area
Corporate Social Responsibility
Author
Satvika Gupta
Org/Univ
MIT World Peace University, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Pub. Date
12 October, 2019
Paper ID
V5I5-1267
Publisher
Keywords
Menstrual hygiene management, Sanitary protection, SHG, Health awareness

Citationsacebook

IEEE
Satvika Gupta. A study on impact of SAHAJA a CSR initiative of Jindal stainless limited, Jajpur Orissa, International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, www.IJARIIT.com.

APA
Satvika Gupta (2019). A study on impact of SAHAJA a CSR initiative of Jindal stainless limited, Jajpur Orissa. International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 5(5) www.IJARIIT.com.

MLA
Satvika Gupta. "A study on impact of SAHAJA a CSR initiative of Jindal stainless limited, Jajpur Orissa." International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology 5.5 (2019). www.IJARIIT.com.

Abstract

Half of the population constitutes women and girls still, there are various issues that women and girls are facing regarding education, health, and participation of workforce. Around 355 million women and girls menstruating inspite of growing nation there are areas where women faces significant barriers to a comfortable and dignified experience with menstrual hygiene awareness and management. Menstrual hygiene education for women is necessary before their first period and 71% of girls in India report no knowledge about menstruation and even people still thinks that menstruation is a sensitive topic, not to talk about especially in public. There are families who cannot afford to buy sanitary napkins. The present Research paper aimed to study the awareness of Menstrual hygiene in the local areas of Jajpur, Orissa. Women and girls lack access to sanitary materials and pads which are necessary to maintain the menstrual hygiene management. Every Women has a right to have sanitary protection but women out there uses unsanitized cloth during and it is due to following reasons:- • Unaffordability • Misinformation and myths The results of the study indicates the positive and significant improvement over menstrual hygiene with time and efforts of SHGs like SAHAJA. Now what actually needed is to accelerate the efforts in order to make affordable and accessible to all the women of all the rural as well as urban areas with cost effective strategy through education, information, and Health awareness.