• The project focuses on training and establishing a sanitary napkin unit for women and girls to promote menstrual hygiene and to support village level entrepreneurs and SHG groups
• The intervention proposes to create ongoing livelihood options for 35000 women who will be engaged in the manufacturing process by developing their own entrepreneurial ventures at their CSC Centre
• The product (sanitary napkin) will be sold under local brand name and marketed by VLEs
• The project also has a menstrual hygiene related awareness generation component and aims to increase usage of sanitary napkins among rural girls in schools and colleges by making the napkins available at the schools

The main features for manufacturing facility for sanitary napkins are:
• CSC-SPV will provide, install and test the machines, and train their Village Level Entrepreneurs and his/her team members.
• This is an easy to set-up & manual process production line & its modular manufacturing unit is easy to maintain
• Customized infrastructure and amenities that ensure timely accomplishment of entire production process
• 750-1000 napkins can be sterilized in a day
• Generate employment (4-5 per manufacturing unit) and provide livelihood development opportunities. Indirectly generating self-dependent communities
• As low as 20% of the manufacturing process needs electricity

Model for Village Level Entrepreneurs a Social Kendra for their Villages:
• Village Level Entrepreneur will provide free of cost sanitary pads to school girls (adolescent girls) of their village and town
• Girls can also avail the same from their CSC Kendra’s of their village
• CSC will provide Rs. 500/- per girls per year to their VLEs (Subject to availability of donations)
• Verification of the same will be done by the Principal of that school.