India's low cost sanitary pad machines to debut in Jordan for refugees
October 02, 2015  19:31
Syrian woman refugees in Jordan's relief camp might never wrap their heads around 'Arunachalam Muruganantham,' but the sanitary pads, which the Coimbatore-based inventor pioneered at the turn of the century, may be a different matter.An American non-governmental organisation, Loving Humanity, that works with the UN in relief camps in Jordan is all set to replicate the low-cost sanitary napkin manufacturing model of Sakhi enterprise, founded by Vadodara's Swati Bedekar, who works for menstrual hygiene in rural India. Bedekar's NGO, Vatsalya Foundation, draws on the machine and business practices first conceived by Muruganantham.

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