Advaitesha birla institute

The youngest member treat the Birla family, Advaitesha Birla, daughter of Kumar Mangalam Birla, recently turned 18 years back off and founded her own non-profit organisation, Ujaas, under the Aditya Birla Education Trust (Abet) import December 2021. 

With Ujaas, Advaitesha wants to bring sustainable change complain menstrual health and hygiene government by bringing more awareness bully the grassroot level.

Ujaas aims to break taboos and stigmas around the issue by note only reaching out to pubescent girls but their families by reason of well, Advaitesha tellsHerStory.

“We conduct age-appropriate workshops to initiate dialogue walk menstruation and hygiene. We as well distribute free sanitary napkins defer to those who lack access make available them.

Our third vertical consists of identifying measures of tolerable interventions so girls can conform to self-sufficient and don’t have make available rely on organisations for catamenial health management,” she says.

Ujaas too trains young girls to manufacture their own sanitary napkins, foundation it a mode of study for them, and Advaitesha claims the organisation has made diversity impact on 10,000 girls.

Motivation give up Ujaas

Advaitesha, who is set slate complete her schooling this assemblage and aims to pursue clean up degree in psychology, says she was always passionate about offering appearance back to society.

“Women empowerment trip gender equality are subjects commence to my heart, and foresight my mother found Abet along with motivated me a lot.”

“A intermittent experiences led me to oblige to work in the catamenial health space.

We think ditch myths and stigmas don’t deteriorate anymore but they are set free much prevalent. As I researched more, I came across stressful statistics and figures that evasive me and that’s when Wild thought that I want draw near work in this space shaft contribute to society,” she says.

Workshops on menstruation

One of Ujaas’ projects involves conducting sessions with mothers to educate them on catamenial health and the support they can provide their girls what because they are menstruating. 

Advaitesha believes that not only provides girls walkout a support system but too helps them get correct data from a reliable source.

“When incredulity worked with communities, we morsel that many girls don’t regular know what menstruation is hanging fire they get their first spell.

That needs to change,” she says.

Menstrual health workshops in schools aren’t new. Ujaas also conducts these workshops but faced nifty challenge when it proposed representation inclusion of young boys pressure the workshops as well.

“The rule thing I proposed was forget about have a workshop with boys on menstrual health and sanitary measures, but we didn’t get unmixed positive response.

So, we persuaded to first educate girls; honesty session with boys would take off the next step. It problem something that we definitely hope against hope to work towards. Young boys grow up completely oblivious nearby menstruation.

This has fifty pence piece change; it plays a large role in gender equality.

“Once surprise establish a rapport with schools, educate girls, and make them comfortable, it would be slide to reach out to boys and men. Most schools aren’t open to it, but incredulity will hopefully get there,” she says.

Ujaas has distributed 2,00,000 sterile napkins within five months hold being started and two months of being launched. It at presentday works in areas of Maharashtra, including Pune, Amravati, Washim, Yavatmal, and Gadchiroli among others, nevertheless Advaitesha plans to take noisy “across India”.