Project Report_AVB by InnovoSoft Technologies Pvt Ltd initiated by Dr. Elizabeth Cherian & Sponsored by The House of Angadi, Bangalore.

PROJECT COMPLETION REPORT

Enable girls to stay hygiene by ensuring access to hygienic products and disposal options.

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Project Snapshots 13th November 2018
AVB_RCB_ECP_03_131118_10
Date: ArogyaVidya Bharat – Enabling girls to stay
Project ID hygiene
Project Title 13th November 2018
31st December 2019
Project Start Date InnovoSoft Technologies Pvt Ltd
Project End Date Dr. Elizabeth Cherian, President Elected, Rotary
Implementing Partner Club of Bangalore
Supporting Partner The House of Angadi, Bangalore
Banglore, Karnataka, India
Funded by All girl students of 10 installed school
Areas of Implementation Teachers, Cleaning Staff of all 10 installed
Number of Direct Beneficiaries schools
Number of Indirect Beneficiaries InnovoSoft Technologies, Rotary Club of
Banglore and Installed Schools
Responsible Parties Four Lakh INR (4,00,000 INR)

Project Budget

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PROJECT SNAPSHOTS ...................................................................................................................................... 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS ...................................................................................................................................... 3
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................... 4
PROJECT OBJECTIVE....................................................................................................................................... 4
DISPOSAL OF SANITARY NAPKINS – A MAJOR GROWING CONCERN ............................................. 4
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE NAPKINS AFTER THEY ARE ‘DISPOSED OF’? .......................................... 4
HERE IS WHAT HAPPENS TO DISPOSED SANITARY NAPKINS (DSN) ................................................ 5
PROJECT PERFORMANCE .............................................................................................................................. 5
PROJECT COMPLETION .................................................................................................................................. 6
FOLLOW ON ACTIONS ..................................................................................................................................... 9
CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................................................................... 9
THANKING NOTE............................................................................................................................................... 9
REFERENCE ...................................................................................................................................................... 10

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Introduction

Proper menstrual hygiene management is one of the most important and basic aspects of feminine
health that is unfortunately neglected not just in developing countries like India but worldwide.

ArogyaVidya Bharat aims at promoting the hygienic and sanitation practices among girl children, girl
students and every woman thereby improving the quality of their lives. This is an initiative to support
every girl child/Women to adopt a hygienic way of handling menstruation days without any hindrance.

Project Objective

The overall objective for the project is to install sanitary napkin vending machines to deliver sanitary
napkins anytime to girl students and to install sanitary napkin incinerators to dispose used sanitary
napkins without creating landfill thereby enabling girls to stay hygiene by ensuring access to hygienic
products and proper disposal option. The benefits of the projects are

1. Immediate access to napkins anytime of the day to meet the menstrual emergencies.
2. Self dispensing of the Napkin at the drop of coins.
3. Saves the embarrassment of seeking napkins in the peer group or from authorities.
4. Disposing the used napkins immediately in turn reducing the infection caused.
5. To get rid off from blockage in toilets due to flushing of used napkins.

Disposal of Sanitary Napkins – A major growing concern

There is one category of waste that makes everybody queasy. It is the disposal of our sanitary waste;
used feminine hygiene products and used disposable diapers.
With the addition of blood, used disposables become dangerous for a city corporation to deal with.
They cannot be humanly handled by garbage collectors; they contain a cocktail of materials including
cotton, a super absorbent polymer, and a whole lot of plastic.
The environmental trail of these products is even more alarming. It takes 236 ml of crude oil to create
the plastic that goes into a single diaper which is available in market. The statistics around feminine
hygiene products are no less alarming. Only 12% of the 355 million women of menstruating age in
India can afford disposable sanitary napkins. But conservatively, these 42.6 million women will throw
21.3 billion sanitary napkins into a landfill in their lives.

Women, both rural and urban, face this question every month while government authorities struggle to
find a way to handle the staggering amount of sanitary waste generated every month.

While some women wrap it in plastic or paper and throw it along with domestic garbage, some flush
them down or throw them into water bodies.

"An average woman throws away about 150kg of mostly non-biodegradable absorbents every year,"

What happens to the napkins after they are ‘disposed of’?

“One major issue of sanitary waste has always been their categorization, i.e., whether it is biomedical
or plastic waste,” as per the reports from Centre for Science and Environment, India.

Soiled napkins, diapers, and blood-soaked cotton, which are household waste according to the
Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000, are disposed of after segregation
into biodegradable and non-biodegradable components.

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However, the Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998 says that items
contaminated with blood and body fluids, including cotton, dressings, soiled plaster casts, lines and
bedding, are bio-medical waste and should be incinerated, autoclaved or micro waved to destroy
pathogens.
The lack of concern for sanitary waste management in our country is reflected in the fact that there
are no reliable statistics available on the subject. "Due to the lack of segregation of waste in India,
there is hardly any documentation on this.”

Here is what happens to disposed sanitary napkins (dsn)

After you hand the soiled napkins over to the garbage collector, the napkins are collected as
household waste by garbage collectors and later segregated, often manually.
"Waste pickers separate out soiled napkins from recyclable items by hand, exposing themselves to
micro-organisms like E.Coli, salmonella, staphylococcus, HIV and pathogens that cause hepatitis and
tetanus,"
After this, the sanitary waste is driven out of the city and buried in a landfill on the outskirts of a city. At
times they are shredded before being buried.

Project Performance

InnovoSoft Technologies Pvt Ltd always believes in delivering the best to our customers; we have
maintained the same to keep the performance of the project at its maximum by providing frequent
support whenever is needed.

1. We have delivered the machine with sensor integrated to increase the heater and machine
life and for reducing electricity charges.

2. Complete burning of napkins with less than 1 to 2 grams of ash per napkin.
3. We have delivered the vending machine which consumes zero electricity. Thereby electricity

consumption can be made very less.
By bringing these additional features we have boosted the performance of the project which was also
appreciated by the school.

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Project Completion

The following chart provides the overall completion report:

VENKATESH BHARATHIYA SCHOOL, VIBHUTIPURA, BANGALORE

Start Date End Date Remarks

Hardware Installation 13th Nov 2018 15th Dec 2018
Teacher Training 13th Nov 2018 15th Dec 2018

MY SCHOOL, RMR EXTENSION, BANGALORE

Hardware Installation Start Date End Date Remarks
Teacher Training 13th Nov 2018 15th Dec 2018 Hardware Installation
13th Nov 2018 15th Dec 2018 Teacher Training

NARMADA MEMORIAL SCHOOL, BANGALORE

Hardware Installation Start Date End Date Remarks
Teacher Training 13th Nov 2018 15th Dec 2018 Hardware Installation
13th Nov 2018 15th Dec 2018 Teacher Training

SMT. KAMALA BAI EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION, BANGALORE

Start Date End Date Remarks

Hardware Installation 13th Nov 2018 15th Dec 2018 Hardware Installation

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Teacher Training 13th Nov 2018 15th Dec 2018 Teacher Training

GOODWILL SCHOOL, BANGLORE

Start Date End Date Remarks
13th Nov 2018 15th Dec 2018
Hardware Installation
Teacher Training 13th Nov 2018 15th Dec 2018

PU College, BANGLORE

Start Date End Date Remarks
13th Nov 2018 15th Dec 2018
Hardware Installation 13th Nov 2018 15th Dec 2018
Teacher Training

DIBBUR HIGH SCHOOL, BANGLORE

Start Date End Date Remarks
13th Nov 2018 15th Dec 2018
Hardware Installation 13th Nov 2018 15th Dec 2018
Teacher Training

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RAINBOW HOME, BANGLORE

Start Date End Date Remarks
13th Nov 2018 15th Dec 2018
Hardware Installation 13th Nov 2018 15th Dec 2018
Teacher Training

ABHALASHRAMA, BANGLORE

Start Date End Date Remarks
13th Nov 2018 15th Dec 2018
Hardware Installation 13th Nov 2018 15th Dec 2018
Teacher Training

NARMANDALA SCHOOL, KENYA

Start Date End Date Remarks
13th Nov 2018 15th Dec 2018
Hardware Installation 13th Nov 2018 15th Dec 2018
Teacher Training

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Follow on Actions

The following list of actions is recommended to facilitate the further development of
ArogyaVidya Bharat;

# ACTION Who
1 Frequent Follow ups with quarterly report generation InnovoSoft Technologies
2 Sharing of monthly reports to sponsors and co-sponsors InnovoSoft Technologies
3 Visiting the installed schools once in 6 months to get the InnovoSoft
Technologies/ Rotary
feedback from the students Club of Banglore

Conclusion

Implementations of ArogyaVidya Bharat in these Ten (10) schools have been successfully completed.
Also training has been given to the teachers and girls students. Teachers and students were
overwhelmed seeing the overall setup and were happy to use our zero electricity vending machine
for dispensing sanitary napkins any time and to use our sanitary napkin incinerator to dispose used
napkins and to contribute towards go green moment. Looking forward to implement in many more
schools and to make it reach to as many students.

Thanking Note

We thank “The House of Angadi, Bangalore” for the sponsorship of this programme and enabling
girls to stay hygiene during the menstruation. This sponsorship has become a backbone for more
than 2000 girl’s students and 70+ teachers. We also thank Dr. Elizabeth Cherian, President Elected,
Rotary Club of Bangalore for initiating this project and making this a successful one by identifying the
right beneficiaries.

Dr. Elizabeth Cherian, The House of Angadi,
President Elected, Bangalore
Rotary Club of
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Reference : +91 99 4516 6887

SPONSORS

Rotary Club of Bangalore
Dr. Elizabeth Cherian

The House of Angadi, Bangalore

IMPLEMENTATION / KNOWLEDGE PARTNER : +91 80 8986 7281
: +91 90 0321 6754
InnovoSoft Technologies Pvt Ltd : +91 94 9763 0471
Mr. Nitheesh N.R
Mrs. Sindhu Reddy : +91 79 7501 4477
Customer Care : +91 98 4506 6723
: +91 98 4505 9000
IMPLEMENTED SCHOOLS : +91 99 8091 0958
: +91 98 4502 3882
Venkatesh Bharathiya School, Bangalore : +91 98 4502 3882
Mr. Venkatesh : +91 99 4525 0224
: +91 80 2210 0044
My School, Rmr Extension, Bangalore : +91 94 8333 4329
Ms. Vidya : +25 47 08181973

Narmada Memorial School, Bangalore
Ms. Sowmya

Smt. Kamala bai educational institution, Bangalore
Ms. Roopa

Goodwill School, Banglore
Ms. Evangeline Jayakumari

PU College, Banglore
Ms. Evangeline Jayakumari

Dibbur High School, Banglore
Mr. Ashwath

Rainbow Home, Banglore
Ms. Lila

Abhalashrama, Banglore
Mr. Shesha

Namandala Schools, Kenya
Mr. Bernard Kadasia

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