“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
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