A sanitary pad vending machine at a community centre in Shakurpur, Delhi, stocked with a year of pads for 30 girls and women.
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A community organisation in Shakurpur, Delhi, works with children and families from low-income households through education and community programmes. It is now opening a playschool and childcare centre in its building.
It wrote to us in October asking for a sanitary pad vending machine on its premises, so that adolescent girls and women from the households around it can get a pad when they need one. It also asked for a first stock of pads, a way to refill the machine, and menstrual health sessions for the community.
The photo shows a vending machine from our earlier work in a school. Photos from this centre will follow once the machine is installed.
One sanitary pad vending machine: ₹24,000, plus 18% GST of ₹4,320: ₹28,320
A year of pads for 30 girls and women, 5 pads a month each: 1,800 pads at ₹5: ₹9,000
Installation, coordination, delivery and follow-up by our team, 15% of the above: ₹5,598
Pinkishe administrative fee, 5% of the above: ₹1,866
Total: ₹44,784
