Women & Girls
Empowering with Dignity
Menstrual health education paired with reusable pad making, run as repeat sessions in the places participants already gather.

Empowering with Dignity treats menstrual health as a practical problem as much as an educational one. Each session combines open discussion of menstrual health and hygiene with hands-on making, so participants leave with a reusable pad they made themselves and the method to make more.
Sessions are hosted where participants already are, in a ward hall, a workplace or a community space, rather than requiring travel to a central venue. That decision is deliberate: attendance holds, and women who could not otherwise spare a full day are able to take part.
The same sessions carry psychosocial wellbeing and stress-management content, and often lead into the vocational skills strand: soap making, bangle making and compost production.
Project detail
- Status
- Recurring
- Location
- Multiple wards and communities
- Period
- Ongoing, with sessions documented through 2025
- Programme pillar
- Women & Girls
Reported figures
- Ropeway Sadak
- 25 participants, 13 June 2025
- Bethanchowk
- 18 women, 28 January 2025
- Bhaktapur psychosocial session
- 20 participants, 17 March 2025
In partnership with
Source: himshikharanepal.org.np
From this project
Photographs

Cutting fabric for reusable sanitary pads during a making session. 
Packaging handmade products at a vocational training session. 
Preparing pad templates and fabric before a community session. 
Finished soap from a vocational skills session.
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