Project Baala Information

Baala is a Delhi and Mumbai based organisation working on advancing sexual and reproductive health and fighting period poverty and illiteracy in rural India, Nepal, Ghana and Tanzania. Led by Cornell and Warwick University alumni, Baala has directly benefited over 1.8 million women and girls and 75,000 men and boys in the past 8 years. Our pads which are reusable for two years, innovative dissemination of menstrual and reproductive health awareness through a life course based, rights based, intersectional approach, and extensive research has allowed us to effectively solve problems of: (a) Access and affordability of menstrual products (b) Environmental pollution caused by non-biodegradable menstrual waste (c) Undignified practices and beliefs due to menstrual myths and taboos (d) Evidence gap in intersectional research Baala has prevented 150,000,000 (150 million!) non-biodegradable sanitary napkins from entering landfills and remodelled behaviours in over 1,000,000 households. This is through conducting workshops and distributing over 3 million reusable sanitary napkins across 32 states and Union Territories of India and pockets of Nepal, Tanzania and Ghana. Our focus has always been on developing solutions and innovating in the space of menstrual health and we have a basket of solutions that integrate technology and research.