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This project encapsulates year-long work on menstrual hygiene management in rural, conflict prone or climate stricken areas, in the Indian state of Assam. Assam supplies a large portion of the world’s tea leaves, but is notorious for having unsafe hygiene practices within its tea estates. This project follows Sikun Relief Foundation, a local NGO, as they offer menstrual hygiene workshops in tea gardens across Assam.
The basket harnessed to their head is used to collect tea leaves as they are picked.
Women who work as tea-pickers at Addabarie Tea Estate attend a menstrual hygiene workshop and practice hand-washing techniques.
Bodoland, an unofficial autonomous territory within Assam, is home to the Bodo tribe. During a menstrual hygiene, one Bodo woman learns about the menstrual cup for the first time.
Puja leads a workshop with school girls in Udalguri, Bodoland. The schoolgirls react with gasps and giggles when Puja shows them different menstrual hygiene products.
Shot on assignment for Sikun Relief Foundation.