Pranathi Prasad's Contact Details

Pranathi Prasad's Company Details

Eco Femme

, Tamil Nadu, India • 11 - 50 Employees
Renewables & Environment

Eco Femme is a women-led social enterprise founded in 2010. Based in Tamil Nadu, India, our goal is to create environmental and social change through revitalizing menstrual practices that are healthy, environmentally sustainable, culturally responsive and empowering for women around the world. We produce and sell washable cloth pads, provide menstrual health education, and open dialogues on menstruation all along the way.Eco Femme works in the area of:Livelihood: We assist marginalised rural Indian women in self help groups to earn by stitching cloth washable menstrual pads which are ethically traded.Education: We develop educational resources and work with schools and NGO's facilitating educational programs that foster a responsible, healthy and dignified menstrual experience for girls and women.Environment: We produce and promote cloth pads. Our pads are a sustainable menstrual product available for women in rural India at cost price so as to be affordable. Premium pads are available internationally - profits generated from these sales help sustain the work in the rural sector.For every Eco Femme washable cloth pad sold outside India, a pad is donated to a girl in rural India as part of our Pad for Pad programme. We subsidise cloth pads to economically disadvantaged women through our Pads for Sisters programme.