Starts Jammu Chapter of PadSquad, Distributes 2000 sanitary pads
JK News Today
Jammu, May 8:
Jammu Girl, Mishika Mittal, a 16-year-old girl from KCPS, organised an event at Jammu to educate under privileged women menstrual hygiene and distributed free sanitary pads under the banner of PadSquad.
Mishika Mittal, has started the Jammu Chapter of PadSquad. Pad Squad is a people’s movement that was born out of the urgent need to help women during the Pandemic with their menstrual needs.
The movement started in June 2020 when the Co-Founders realized that women & their menstrual hygiene needs were totally ignored with rations having been given priority for economically marginalized homes. Pad Squad took up the cause of distributing menstrual hygiene care products to women in slums, bastis, villages and tribes.
Mishika Mittal has always taken an active part in community service activities since 2016 and has even started her own campaign called “Support for Tomorrow” under which she has organized several activities for the welfare of orphaned children. She believes in making persistent efforts to take up social issues in order to bring about change rather than simply raising awareness about it.
Mishika accompanied by her friend, Saumya Kapur organised the event at Jammu Sanskriti School on Saturday and gather a group of under privileged women with the help of National Corruption Control and Human Welfare Organization (NCCHWO), where the women were educated about Menstrual Hygiene Awareness.
They talked about the importance of using menstrual pads, how to use them and how to dispose them of properly. They distributed about 2000 pads among 70-80 ladies coming from rural areas.
She has always taken active participation in community service.
During 2020, with the rising Covid 19 global pandemic, Mishika along with the school Service team took the initiative to make more than 400 masks and presented them to SSP Sandeep Mehta (Operations/Cyber Crime Jammu) to distribute among the poor. Several in-school online workshops were conducted to make homemade sanitizers which were then donated to the domestic helpers.
She is also a part of community kitchen. For the past 6 years, with the assistance of her family members, she has organized various ‘langars’ for the daily wage workers on a monthly basis through which they are able to feed 800-900 people per month.
There are many other activities done by this Jammu Girl like ‘Maitri’, a fundraising marathon to raise enough funds to purchase winter essentials for underprivileged living in a shelter home in Jammu. She also took initiative to mobilize students to come forward to help the needy by giving rations and other essential items from their pocket money.
