01 · STITCH
Made by women, for women
Reusable sanitary kits are stitched by women from underserved communities, so every kit is also a livelihood.
Project Inaayat · since 2018
Periods, without the silence.
We run menstrual hygiene sessions with schools and NGOs, and hand out reusable sanitary kits stitched by women from underserved communities, right at the session.
Inaayat · Urdu for "a blessing"
NEW · OCTOBER 2026
Give Her the Wings is back in the villages.
Our flagship campaign went out again this October: menstrual hygiene sessions for girls and women, and reusable kits handed over at the session itself. It's more than a campaign. Watch it for yourself.
Oct 2026Give Her the Wings, village sessions and kits.
Mar 2026Top 4 in the Mature Stage at Envision, IIT Roorkee.
Feb 2026Session in Colaba under the Sakhi drive, with Think India HRC.
Eight years of breaking the silence.
From one project in 2018 to sessions across Mumbai, Palghar and beyond.
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Lives impacted
Through sessions and kits since 2018.
Kits in one order
Made for Bindu in 2021, for North and Central India.
Kits per campaign
Handed out in each of Give Her the Wings 2024 and 3.0.
Reusable pads, Nagpur
Donated at a tribal police camp in 2025.
Let's talk period. No shame.
How it works
Two halves of one project.
02 · PARTNER
Schools and NGOs
We work with schools and NGOs who know the community, from Mumbai's municipal schools to villages in Palghar.
03 · TALK
The session
A menstrual hygiene session: the biology, hygiene practices, myths against facts, and a space to ask anything.
04 · HAND OVER
Kits at the session
Kits are given out at the session itself, with a picture guide on how to use and care for them.
05 · FUND
Orders pay for reach
Paying orders fund production, while partnerships carry the kits to communities where access is hardest.
What's in the kit
Everything she needs, in one pouch.
The original Inaayat kit, made with Days for Girls: two shields, eight absorbent liners, a menstrual chart, a pictorial guide and two soaps.
Kits change with the community. For Give Her the Wings 3.0 each kit held three reusable pads, an instruction chart in Marathi and a bar of soap.
Business model
Three ways a kit reaches someone.
Paying orders fund production, while partnerships carry our reach to communities where access is hardest.
Distribution with NGOs
Kits go out through NGO partners, at sessions, to the people who need them most.
Corporates and institutions
Partnerships and bulk orders, like the ₹4.15 lakh order for 2,600 kits from Bindu in 2021.
Direct to you
Anyone can buy a kit, and every sale keeps the production centre stitching.
≈ ₹170to make one kit
≈ ₹5,000fixed cost per order
≈ ₹10of fixed cost per kit, depending on order size
Our flagship campaign
Give Her the Wings.
Once a year we raise funds, prepare a thousand kits and take sessions to villages where most women have never had a reusable option.
September 2024 · Charoti, Dahanu
1,000
Where 80% had no proper facilities
A village visit found that 80% of women in Charoti lacked adequate sanitary facilities. A fundraiser at college raised over ₹2 lakh, and 54 members, with faculty and student volunteers, took 1,000 reusable kits, 2,000 innerwear items and sessions to the village.
₹2 lakh+ raised54 members2,000 innerwear
22 September 2025 · GHTW 3.0 · Palghar
3.0
Twenty days, three villages
Preponed by almost a month, the team found a community, raised funds and prepared over 1,000 kits in 20 days. 31 members ran sessions for girls and women in Dhaniwari, Kasa and Murbad.
31 members3 villagesFeatured in Mid-day
October 2026 · the latest edition
2026
Back again, with a whole lot of heart
The campaign returned to the villages this October. The reels at the top of this page are from it.
Sessions and kits with
Partners include Days for Girls, Bindu, Rainbow Foundation, Alambana Foundation, Tap2Smile, Connect For, Bhumi, Pahile Majhe Kartavya Foundation, The 1% Club, Think India HRC, Help and Feed India and The Period Society.
Our journey
From one idea in 2018 to a national stage.
Inaayat begins
Launched as India's first chapter under Days for Girls International, to make reusable menstrual hygiene kits and run awareness sessions.
On the national stage
The Inaayat menstrual hygiene campaign, and Inaayat presented at Enactus India Nationals 2019 alongside Aajeevika.
Let's talk period
Periodicals, an IGTV series on menstrual health, and Period Party, a month of webinars with founders and menstrual coaches.
2nd of 105 projects
Runner-up at the Youth Innovation Challenge hosted by Red Dot Foundation–Safecity, with UN-Habitat and UNICEF among its partners.
Red Dot Foundation2,600 kits for Bindu
A ₹4.15 lakh order: 2,600 kits from our rural production centre, distributed across North and Central India.
National Award
Best Social Initiative for Women Empowerment at Bhavishya Bharat, among 186 colleges, for Inaayat and Aajeevika.
National AwardGive Her the Wings, Charoti
1,000 reusable kits and 2,000 innerwear items for a village where 80% of women lacked adequate sanitary facilities.
Nagpur
1,200 reusable sanitary pads donated at a tribal police camp in Nagpur.
Give Her the Wings 3.0
1,000 kits and sessions across Dhaniwari, Kasa and Murbad in Palghar, covered by Mid-day in October.
Sakhi drive, Colaba
A menstrual hygiene session in Colaba with Think India HRC.
Top 4 at IIT Roorkee
Inaayat placed in the Top 4 of the Mature Stage at Envision, E-Summit '26.
Envision · IIT RoorkeeGive Her the Wings 2026
The flagship campaign, back in the villages.
What's next
Where Inaayat goes from here.
Biodegradable pads
Organic, biodegradable disposable pads, alongside the reusable kits.
Stronger school partnerships
Sessions that reach girls before their first period, not after.
Deeper NGO collaboration
Longer partnerships with the NGOs who carry kits into communities.
At Project Inaayat, we believe menstrual care should be built on knowledge, access and dignity.
Team Inaayat · Enactus HRC
Sponsor kits
Give her the wings.
Fund kits for the next campaign, order them for your institution, or partner with us for sessions. Every kit is also a day's work for the women who stitch it.