Reaching thousands of women and girls across Tamil Nadu with the health knowledge and care they deserve.
In rural and tribal communities across Tamil Nadu, women\'s health remains shrouded in stigma, misinformation, and neglect. Menstruation is treated as a taboo subject, proper sanitation facilities are absent, and basic health education is inaccessible — leaving millions of women and adolescent girls vulnerable to preventable health complications.
Geo India Foundation\'s Women Health and Sanitary Hygiene programme directly confronts these barriers. Through community health camps, awareness workshops, door-to-door outreach, and school-based programmes, we bring accurate health information, free sanitary products, and dignified healthcare access to women who have been overlooked by mainstream systems.
Our outreach spans 20+ districts, reaching urban slums, resettlement colonies, rural villages, and remote tribal settlements. In five years of active programming, we have reached over 10,000 women and girls, fundamentally changing how communities view and address women\'s health.
Our multilayered approach ensures that no woman or girl is left behind in our commitment to women\'s health and hygiene education.
Organising free women\'s health screening camps with qualified doctors and gynaecologists in rural and tribal locations, providing consultations and referrals for advanced care.
Conducting menstrual hygiene awareness workshops in schools, colleges, and community centres — using local language materials and peer-to-peer education to break taboos.
Distributing free sanitary napkins and reusable cloth pads to women and girls in remote areas where commercial products are unaffordable or unavailable.
Deploying trained female health workers into tribal settlements to provide door-to-door health education, contraception awareness, and maternal health support.
Women who participated in our hygiene education programmes report significantly reduced rates of reproductive tract infections, attributing the change to improved menstrual hygiene practices learned through our camps.
In schools where our menstrual hygiene programme has been active, girl absenteeism during menstruation has dropped dramatically — with more girls staying in school through their adolescent years.
Community attitudes around menstruation and women\'s health have measurably shifted in our programme areas, with men and boys increasingly supportive of women\'s health needs following awareness campaigns.
Free health screening camps have detected dozens of cases of cervical abnormalities, anaemia, and other conditions at early, treatable stages — potentially saving lives through timely medical intervention.
Your donation funds health camps, sanitary kit distributions, and life-changing awareness programmes for women in the most underserved corners of Tamil Nadu. Stand with us for women\'s health.