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A girl should never be shamed out of her own classroom.

₹500 gives one girl safe menstrual protection and honest education for a whole year. Will you give her that year?

A schoolgirl standing at the front of her classroom with a stain on her uniform while classmates look on

One stain, in front of the whole class. For a great many girls in India, this is the day school quietly ends.

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A monthly gift is the steadiest thing you can give us. It lets us promise a school a whole year, instead of a single term.

  • ₹500 a month a new girl protected every month, twelve in a year
  • ₹1,000 a month two girls every month, twenty four in a year
  • ₹2,500 a month five girls every month, sixty in a year

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One girl

The day the cloth betrayed her

Two schoolgirls in school uniform smiling outside their classroom
Girls at a school supported by Pinkishe Foundation.

“Nahi, mai school nahi jaungi.”

No, I will not go to school.

Rani sat on her bed, curled into her quilt, staring at her frayed schoolbag on the floor. Her mother stood at the door. Beta, aaj bhi school nahi jana?

It was the third day of her period, and Rani was not going to school. Again.

The cloth she used was torn from an old saree her mother had handed down. It shifted. It smelled. It leaked. The month before, it had leaked in class. Her uniform stained, her classmates noticed, and the teasing that followed was more than she could carry. After that, going to school during her period felt impossible.

A reusable pad changed it. Cotton, leak-proof, buttoned so it stays put. Today Rani walks to school on all five days.

RaniOne of more than 4,500 girls reached in Varanasi and Ahmedabad
Why it keeps happening

Rani is not unusual. That is the hard part.

Millions of girls across India manage their periods with cloth, rags or newspaper, because nothing better is within reach.

1 in 5girls in India drop out of school by the time of their first period
71%of girls have never heard of menstruation before it happens to them
₹500is all it takes to end that for one girl, for a whole year

Figures published by Pinkishe Foundation from our own field programmes.

What ₹500 does

One girl, one year, inside her own school

We do not hand out pads at the roadside and leave. We work inside a girl’s school, so that what she gets is there next month too.

1

Pads she can reach

A Pad Bank and a vending unit inside her school, stocked and refilled, so she is never sent home.

2

Someone who can answer

Sessions for her class, an orientation for the boys, and a trained teacher she can go to all year.

3

Somewhere to dispose

Disposal handled properly, which is the part most menstrual programmes quietly skip.

4

She stays in class

No missed days, no shame. Just a girl who keeps learning, five days a month she used to lose.

“Before this programme, I missed school every month. Now I feel informed and confident, and I never miss a class.”

Arti, 14Student supported by Pinkishe Foundation
You are in good company

Mr Amitabh Bachchan stood up for these girls

Amitabh Bachchan speaking in support of Pinkishe Foundation▶

He did not have to. He recorded this for Pinkishe because one in five girls in India leaves school when her periods begin, and most of them have never been told what is happening to them.

Watching takes two minutes. Giving takes one.

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These organisations looked at our work closely, then funded it

MetaAmazonAdobeProcter and GambleFlipkartPhonePeHDFC BankAxis BankLIC of IndiaIndus TowersBoston Consulting GroupUniqlo
8,04,512+
Women & girls supported
77,45,143
Pads distributed
6,031
Period workshops held
150
Districts across 30 states & UTs
9+
Years on this one subject

Cumulative programme data to July 2026.

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Your gift is receipted, tax deductible under Section 80G, and put to work on the ground.

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Your questions, answered

Will I get an 80G tax receipt?
Yes. Every donation made within India is eligible under Section 80G, and your receipt is emailed to you as soon as the payment succeeds. Add your PAN on the payment page if you intend to claim the deduction, since the Income Tax Department matches the donation to your PAN.
How is my money used?
₹500 covers one girl’s menstrual protection and education for a year in a school where we already work. That includes her pads and her share of the classroom sessions and the trained teacher. It does not pretend our overheads are zero. Our audited accounts for the last three years are published on our partnerships page.
Can I stop a monthly donation?
At any time. Write to us at chair@pinkishe.org and we will cancel it for you, usually the same day. You will also receive a receipt each time a monthly payment is taken, so nothing happens quietly.
Can I donate from outside India?
Yes, but please use our international giving page rather than this one. We hold FCRA registration, and foreign contributions must be received into our designated FCRA account, as the law requires.
Is the payment secure?
Payments are handled by Razorpay, one of India’s largest payment gateways. Pinkishe never sees or stores your card or bank details. UPI, cards, net banking and wallets are all accepted.
Is there a minimum donation?
No. Use the other amount box and give whatever you wish. We built this page around ₹500 only because that is what one girl costs us for a year, not because smaller gifts are unwelcome.

Give a girl her school days back.

Somewhere today a girl is sitting at home with her schoolbag on the floor. ₹500 changes that for a whole year, and it takes one minute.

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