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PadMad - Upcycling Textiles for Menstrual Health & Girl's Education

PadMad - Upcycling Textiles for Menstrual Health & Girl's Education

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Circular Entrepreneurship in Kenya

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Understanding, building and managing circular business models

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How can a reusable pad company address education, employment, and
environmental waste simultaneously? In this episode, Madhvi Dalal,
founder of PadMad, talks about why and how she built a social
enterprise to tackle period poverty in Kenya, a country where 65%
of women and girls cannot afford menstrual products. This crisis
leads to girls missing school and exams, forces them to improvise
pads with unhygienic materials, and leaves them exposed to be taken
advantage of. Madhvi walks us through PadMad's three-pillar focus:
education, running workshops in schools and workplaces to break
stigma and provide information. Empowerment, employing marginalised
women to manufacture the pads. And environment, creating reusable
pads from textile waste to reduce plastic pollution. You'll also
hear how this model has scaled to impact over 150,000 people and
prevented millions of disposable pads from polluting Kenya's
environment.