Empowering Women ~ Transforming Resources

  Institutional Procurement Guide Buying reusable sanitary pads for schools, NGOs or community programmes Price and delivery dates are the easy questions. Here's what actually determines whether the programme works. When an organisation decides to provide reusable sanitary pads to girls and women, the first questions are usually straightforward: how many, at what price, delivered by when. Those questions matter, but if you're procuring reusable menstrual products for a school, NGO, community initiative or CSR programme, other questions determine whether the intervention actually works. A reusable pad isn't simply a product to distribute. It's part of a menstrual-health system involving product quality, user preferences, water and sanitation, education, privacy, care practices, supply reliability and ongoing support. The World Health Organization defines menstrual health as more than access to materials, it includes information, effective products, acceptable WASH facili...

  Circular manufacturing · Blog series From textile waste to menstrual dignity A piece of textile that is no longer wanted can become something profoundly useful. It can become part of a reusable menstrual product that helps a girl manage her period with greater dignity. It can become a source of income for a woman learning to sew. It can become a practical lesson in circular manufacturing. And, when the model is designed well, it can become part of a wider system that connects women's health, environmental sustainability and economic opportunity. This is the thinking behind Caryle's DignifyHer™ and circular manufacturing model. At Caryle, we are asking a different question about waste: What value are we losing when we treat materials as waste before their useful life is truly over? Our answer is to recover suitable textile materials, transform them through local manufacturing, and create products that respond to real community needs. The problem is bigger than textile waste Ev...