Pune: In a bid to provide a hygienic life to tribal women who cannot afford high-priced sanitary napkins, a Pune-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) makes sanitary pads out of old clothes and distributes them to women residing in nearby tribal villages.

Sachin, the founder of the NGO 'Samajbandh' urges people to donate their old clothes for the purpose through social media platform. He himself goes to the house of people and collects clothes. He started this initiative after taking a cue from an incident that happened with his own mother, who had to undergo an operation to remove her uterus for not taking care during menstrual period.