Sparkle Eco Innovations

With over eight years of work experience in key leadership positions at a number of multi-national corporations and NGOs across the globe and academic background from Canada, USA, Europe, and India, I co-founded United World Foundation in 2017 and Sparkle Eco Innovations in 2018. I have completed my Mechanical Engineering from McMaster University, Canada, Master in Business Administration from Ryerson University, Canada and grad program from UC Berkeley, USA. 

When I was 23, I launched my first fundraiser and took a gap year to put my engineering and business skills to a good use while volunteering, teaching, staying at orphanages and working with different NGOs in Kenya, Tanzania, Vietnam, South Africa, India and Costa Rica.

At United World Foundation, I guide the vision and strategic direction of the foundation. At Sparkle Eco Innovations, I guide the organization in the areas of product design, manufacturing and business development.

Without access to sanitary pads, millions of girls and women in low and middle income countries use less hygienic alternatives such as old rags, cow patties, or ash during their periods, risking infection. Millions of girls and women across the globe miss around 50-60 days of school or work every year due to lack of access to pads.

We have developed patent pending technology to make the world’s first sustainable, affordable, plastic-free and chemical-free sanitary pads from a combination of banana fiber, bamboo fiber and corn-starch that can biodegrade in around 6 months of disposal. Conventional pads contain up to 90% plastic and do not biodegrade for around 600-800 years after disposal.

Through our “Buy one, Give One” initiative, we donate a pad to a girl in need with every Sparkle purchase. With access to pads, girls can participate in school, engage socially and carry out daily activities with dignity.

Multi-dimensional problems we aim to address:

Socio-economic Aspect: Lack of access to sanitary pads is a leading reason for higher school dropout rates of adolescent girls than boys once they reach puberty. According to UNICEF, around 23% of girls in India drop out of school once they reach puberty. When adolescent girls have access to sanitary napkins, school dropout rate decreases by 90%. 

Plastic Pollution: The average woman uses approximately 11,000 disposable pads in her lifetime. Thousands of tonnes of sanitary pad waste remain unchanged in the landfill for over 600-800 years after disposal. With only 1 in 6 women using pads in India, around 150,000 tons of pad waste is generated per year. If all of 355 million women in India start using pads, it would result in around 1,000,000 tons of pad waste annually.

Agricultural Aspect: Worldwide, around 9.5 million hectares of banana plantation generate around 750 million tons of banana stem agro-waste.

Health Aspect: Around 200 million women in India, without access to pads, use less hygienic alternatives during their periods, risking infection. Majority of commercial pads available in the market contain harsh chemicals and plastic that may cause rashes, skin irritation and allergies.

We founded Sparkle to promote gender equality, improve menstrual health, reduce plastic pollution and support circular economy by providing plastic-free, chemical-free and affordable feminine hygiene products to everyone across the globe. 

For the past two and a half years, we experimented with different natural ingredients and developed innovative manufacturing processes as well as small scale prototype machines to make sanitary pads.

We have developed patent pending technology to efficiently and economically extract banana fiber from banana stem agro-waste as well as to make sanitary pads from a combination of banana fiber, bamboo fiber and corn starch.

We focused on using naturally absorbent banana fiber to reduce agro-waste and to provide opportunities for farmers to earn extra income.

We aim to continue our R&D to develop sustainable, affordable and effective sanitary pads using natural and biodegradable materials (such as jute fiber, bagasse, cotton, bamboo fiber, corn-starch, naturally absorbent bio-polymers etc.) to create the world’s most affordable pad with the cost of around US$ 0.04 - US$ 0.06 per pad to ensure that underprivileged girls and women across the globe have access to affordable sanitary pads and equal opportunities to reach their full potential at school and work. 

Around 200 million girls and women in India use unhygienic methods to manage their periods which can lead to UTIs and other reproductive diseases. Social and cultural stigma around menstruation prevents young girls from receiving proper education about how to manage their periods safely.

Due to lack of access to sanitary napkins, many girls remain at home during menstruation which is a leading reason for higher school dropout rates of adolescent girls than boys once they reach puberty. Lack of education results in vicious cycle of illiteracy, unemployment and poverty. 

By donating pads through our “Buy One, Give One” initiative, we aim to empower young girls and ensure they can have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. Through menstrual hygiene management seminars in schools, colleges and local community centres, we aim to normalise periods so that girls can learn to treat menstruation as a normal and healthy part of life.

During COVID-19 countrywide lockdown, we donated over 100,000 sanitary pads to daily wage earners, migrant workers, contractual labourers and construction workers who were impacted by lockdown.

We firmly believe that no girl or woman should miss an opportunity to reach her full potential at school or work because of lack of access to sanitary pads. This is not a girls' or women’s issue – it’s a human rights issue.

By transforming banana stem agro-waste into affordable sanitary pads, we aim to not only provide sanitary pads to girls in need and ensure they can reach their full potential, but also allow banana farmers to earn extra income so they can afford to send their kids to school and provide better food and healthcare to their families.

I come from a family of farmers. My grandfather still farms on a plot of land in a small village of Gujarat, India. My family has banana plantations near one of the biggest banana growing belts of India.

Banana plants grow in just 9-12 months and once bananas are harvested, these plants become agro-waste. Disposing thousands of tonnes of agro-waste is a hassle for banana farmers. After each harvest, farmers either burn these discarded stems which causes air pollution or they have to pay additional labor expenses to remove them from their farms.

In 2017, we started developing innovative ways to transform banana stem agro-waste into sustainable raw material for making new products. We realized that banana fibers are naturally super absorbent and highly effective at locking away menstrual fluid.

At the same time, Hetal, co-founder of Sparkle, was experiencing skin issues while using uncomfortable conventional pads filled with plastic and harsh chemicals. She was looking for natural, plastic-free and affordable alternatives that do not cause skin irritation and allergies.

With banana fiber becoming sustainable raw material for Sparkle sanitary pads, farmers can get an opportunity to earn extra income each harvest while supporting circular economy. 

When I was growing up, I personally witnessed many instances where periods were stigmatized. Many of my close friends were not allowed to interact with anyone while they were on their periods. My grandmother grew up in a small village in Gujarat where girls and women did not have access to pads.

Even a simple task of buying pads from a store still consists of awkwardly whispering the name of a sanitary napkin brand and then quickly putting in a bag to hide it from the world. How can we expect young girls to freely discuss their problems about menstruation when they hesitantly lower their voices while mentioning the word ‘Periods’ or ‘Pads’?

As I worked with different NGOs and participated in outreach programs which included medical camps, HIV counselling, teaching, feeding programs in Kenya, Tanzania, Vietnam, South Africa and India, I learned about the problems millions of women faced during their periods. In many developing countries, menstruating girls and women are considered impure or dirty.

We started Sparkle with an aim to fight social stigma surrounding periods and provide pads to underprivileged girls and women to reduce school dropout rates, increase number of workdays and prevent diseases.

With a clear strategic vision and a gender-balanced team that is equipped with diverse experience in a number of functions across product design, manufacturing, business development, accounting, finance and marketing, we believe we have what it takes to develop the world’s most affordable and sustainable sanitary pads to meet the needs of women and girls in low and middle income countries.

With my diverse academic background (Mechanical Engineering from McMaster University, M.B.A. from Ryerson University and post-graduation program from UC-Berkeley) and over eight years of work experience in key leadership positions at a number of multi-national corporations and NGOs across the globe, I overlook product design, manufacturing, business development and marketing.

With over eight years of work experience and academic qualifications (C.A. from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, C.W.A. from the Institute of Cost Accountants of India, C.S. from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, Bachelor of Law and Bachelor of Commerce from Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, India), co-founder, Hetal, leads day-to-day operations, distribution, supply chain management, finance, legal and accounting.

We have developed two patent pending technologies to efficiently and economically extract banana fiber from banana stem agro-waste and to make the world’s first sanitary pad from a combination of banana fiber, bamboo fiber and corn starch. We are planning to file two more patents later this year.

We have collaborated with local banana farmers and other key stakeholders that allow us to procure a regular supply of banana fiber and other raw materials. 

We made our first sanitary napkin in the basement of our home using a rectangular homemade die and a paper lamination machine. With a limited budget, we manually chopped banana fibers with scissors before developing automatic fiber chopping machines in-house. Without access to sophisticated lab equipment to maintain temperature and pressure, we used pressure cookers to transform the fiber structure of hard banana fiber into soft and absorbent pulp.

Our next challenge was to extract banana fiber economically and efficiently. We purchased banana fiber extraction machines that were available in the market. However, we soon realized that they had very low production capacity with high wastage-ratio due to inefficient design. The operation was labor intensive with high breakage of fiber. To overcome this challenge, we developed patent pending auto-feed machines with speed controllers, conveyor belts, brushing unit and drying unit with four times the production capacity and twice the fiber yield compared to existing machines.

Since most sanitary pads making machines available in the market were way too expensive for any early stage star-up to afford, we developed small-scale and economically viable machines with electric heaters, temperature sensors and basic sealing and cutting functions to make our first functional prototype.

As a co-founder at Sparkle, I overlook product design, manufacturing, marketing and business development with an aim to make sustainable sanitary pads affordable and accessible for everyone across the globe.

As co-founder, I guide the vision and strategic direction of United World Foundation with an aim to build poverty-free, healthy, gender-balanced, equitable, eco-conscious and inclusive humanity.

During my M.B.A. studies at Ryerson University, I received an award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Life which is given to 1 out of 200 students for taking initiatives and organizing events to ensure the graduating class could get an opportunity to interact with each other outside of the competitive environment of the classroom.

During my mechanical engineering studies at McMaster University, I was selected as a frosh leader that assists first year students with their high school to university transition through different initiative.

During my high school at Jarvis Collegiate Institute, I co-founded an after-school club called "Eco Club" that focused on improving recycling initiatives of our school. We placed individually labelled and color coded recycling bins besides all the garbage cans around the school on all the floors to promote segregation at source and recycling of plastic, metal and paper waste.

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Product Innovation

We have developed patent pending technology to make the world’s first sustainable sanitary pad with a combination of bamboo fiber, banana fiber, naturally absorbent bio-polymers and corn starch that can biodegrade in around 6 months of disposal.

Conventional pads contain up to 90% plastic, with the top layer made from polypropylene (PP), absorbent core made from sodium polyacrylate or SAP and the bottom layer made from polyethylene (PE), and do not biodegrade for around 600-800 years after disposal.

Our innovative business model allows us to develop many other sustainable and plastic-free absorbent articles such as baby diapers, incontinence pads, adult diapers, maternity pads.

Process Innovation

To support circular economy and reduce agro-waste, we transform ligno-cellulosic banana fiber into soft-absorbent pulp by modifying the fiber structure to make soft and absorbent pulp. In order to develop more affordable sanitary pads, we are also experimenting with jute fibers since they are economically more viable and used jute bags or jute scrap can also be transformed into absorbent fluff pulp. We are also exploring bagasse (sugar cane) fiber since it is also naturally absorbent, very cost effective and available as a by-product from sugar factories across the globe.

Technology and Machine Design Innovation

To make banana fiber extraction operation more efficient, cost effective and scalable, we have developed patent pending technology to extract banana fiber with auto-feeders, speed controllers, conveyor belts, brushing unit and drying unit with four times the production capacity and twice the fiber yield compared to existing machines. 

Problem:

Globally, it is estimated that 528 million women and girls lack basic menstrual hygiene supplies based on data collected from 8 countries in Performance Monitoring for Action, 2020.

Input:

• We collaborate with local banana farmers to procure banana stem agro-waste and utilize our patent pending technology to extract banana fiber and make biodegradable, plastic-free and chemical-free sanitary pads from banana fiber, bamboo fiber and corn starch.
• We sell sustainable sanitary pads to women in urban areas through our own website, other online platforms, local pharmacies and eco-oriented shops. 
• Through our “Buy One, Give One” initiative, we donate a pad to a girl in need in rural communities with every Sparkle purchase.
• To break social and cultural stigma around periods, we conduct menstrual hygiene seminars through interactive sessions, visual aids and educational materials in rural communities.

Output:

• Banana farmers earn extra income each harvest by selling banana stems which were previously discarded as agro-waste. Thousands of tons of agro-waste is reduced while supporting circular economy. Air pollution caused by burning agro-waste is also reduced.
• When underprivileged adolescent girls have access to sanitary napkins, school dropout rate decreases by 90%. It also increases the number of workdays for women by around 40-50 days per year which leads to significant increase in income.
• Girls and women gain awareness about health problems such as UTIs, reproductive diseases, breast cancer, ovarian cancer and mental health issues through educational seminars conducted by doctors and gynecologists.
• Using sustainable, plastic-free and biodegradable sanitary pads significantly reduces plastic pollution and sanitary pad waste.

Outcome:

• A gender balanced society where all girls and women have equal opportunity to reach their full potential and no girl has to drop out of school due to lack of access to sanitary pads.
• Through regular awareness seminars, periods can be normalized so that girls can learn to treat menstruation as a normal and healthy part of life.
• With additional income, banana farmers can afford to send their kids to school and provide better food and healthcare to their families.

So far, we have sold over 150,000 plastic-free, chemical-free and biodegradable pads to women in urban areas. We have donated over 150,000 pads to over 7,000 underprivileged girls in urban slums and rural communities. We have reduced over 1000 tons of agro-waste and 1500 kg of sanitary pad waste. We have also helped over 100 farmers earn extra income from banana stem agro-waste.

In 2020-2021, we aim to sell over 500,000 pads, donate over 500,000 pads to over 25,000 girls and women in need, reduce over 5000 tons of agro-waste and 5000 kg of sanitary pad waste and help over 300 farmers earn extra income from agro-waste.

In 2021-2022, we aim to sell over 1,000,000 pads, donate over 1,000,000 pads to over 50,000 girls and women in need, reduce over 10,000 tons of agro-waste and 10,000 kg of sanitary pad waste and help over 600 farmers earn extra income from agro-waste.

In the next 3 years, we aim to sell over 5,000,000 pads, donate over 5,000,000 pads to over 250,000 girls and women in need, reduce over 50,000 tons of agro-waste and 50,000 kg of sanitary pad waste and help over 3000 farmers earn extra income from agro-waste.

In the next 5 years, we aim to sell over 50,000,000 pads, donate over 50,000,000 pads to over 2,500,000 girls and women in need, reduce over 500,000 tons of agro-waste and 500,000 kg of sanitary pad waste and help over 30,000 farmers earn extra income from agro-waste.

Product R&D

In 2020, we aim to develop and launch a new type of Sparkle pads that will not only be sustainable, plastic-free and chemical-free, but also be available at the same price as conventional plastic pads that are available in the market.

Within the next three years, we aim to develop the world’s most affordable, plastic-free and sustainable sanitary pad with the cost of around US$ 0.04 - US$ 0.06 per pad by modifying fiber structure of more cost-effective natural cellulose based fibers such as jute fiber and bagasse (sugar cane) fiber.

Production and Business Model

We aim to install fully automatic sanitary pad manufacturing machine with a production capacity of over 500 pieces per minute in 2021 to take advantage of economy of scale and reduce our overall cost per pad. Simultaneously, we will be focusing on establishing effective sales and distribution channel. 

In the next five years, we aim to install three automatic production lines to maximize our impact. We also aim to introduce additional sustainable products such as maternity pads, adult diapers and baby diapers.

Initiatives to Elevate Humanity

To ensure that donated sanitary pads reach girls and women that need them the most, we aim to expand our network of NGO partners that are active at grassroots level in different states of India as well as across the globe. With increased production capacity and donation target, we aim to distribute sanitary pads to refugee camps and health camps in conflict zones across the globe.

Since we have spent over two years for developing our innovative business model, collaborating with local farmers and other key stakeholders, experimenting with a number of natural cellulose based fibrous raw materials, developing patent pending machines and processes to extract banana fiber and make sanitary pads and clearing all the regulatory compliances to market and sell Sparkle pads in India, there are no major technical, legal, cultural, or market barriers that may limit our impact in the next year and the next five years.

With that being said, the only barrier that may have an effect on the magnitude of our potential impact is a financial barrier as our ability to install fully automatic sanitary pad production line and to scale our operation primarily depends on how much capital we can inject in 2020 and 2021.

Keeping scalability in mind, we have developed our manufacturing processes, technology and raw materials (sufficient tensile strength of a roll in machine direction and cross direction, pulping parameters that provide fluffy and absorbent pulp, etc) to ensure that they are compatible with high speed and fully automatic sanitary pad making machines with production capacity of around 1000 pieces per minute. With fully automatic production line, we can optimize our production efficiency and take advantage of economy of scale to decrease our overall product cost.

By implementing high speed sanitary pad production line, we can maximize our impact and provide affordable sanitary pads to girls and women in need across the globe.

We have contacted multiple companies that sell used sanitary pad machines as well as suppliers that sell new machines. Depending on machine brand, configurations (semi-automatic vs. fully automatic) and machine speed (150 to 1500 pieces per minute), the cost may vary from US$ 150,000 to US$ 1,500,000.

We plan to purchase automatic machines and required raw materials for maximizing our impact through following resources:

• Revenue generated from sales: So far, we have generated over US$ 50,000 by selling Sparkle pads
• Raising funds through crowdfunding: We have raised over US$200,000 from a crowdfunding platform, Republic where less than 3% of start-ups that apply are selected after passing through their due diligence and investment committee.
• Pitched our idea on a TV show: We pitched our idea to Tim Draper, the early investor in more than 30 unicorns, including Tesla, Skype, Bitcoin, and SpaceX as well as Bill Draper, Polly Draper as one of top 27 start-ups that were selected to be a part of Meet The Drapers.
• We are also applying to suitable grants and participating in competitions, conferences and awards across the globe for social enterprise.
• We also aim to inject as much money as we can from our personal savings.  

HospitalCollaboration: We have collaborated with SDARTSV Hospital for connecting with doctors and gynecologists who can conduct menstrual hygiene awareness seminars and educate young girls and women in rural communities about serious health problems such as, reproductive diseases, breast cancer, UTIs and mental health issues.

NGO Collaborations: We have collaborated with Manvilas Charitable Trust and United World Foundation for organizing menstrual hygiene awareness seminars and distributing sanitary pads to girls and women in need in rural communities. During COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, we collaborated with Saath Charitable Trust and Goonj to donate over 100,000 sanitary pads to daily wage earners, migrant workers, contractual laborers and construction workers. With no work or income and all public transport, including buses, trains and taxies, halted, hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, who travel to the cities for work as daily wagers started walking down highways for hundreds of kilometres towards their native villages. 

University Collaboration: As by-product of banana fiber extraction, we recover nutritious banana stem sap that can be used for producing organic fertilizer. We have collaborated with Navsari Agricultural University (NAU) for producing 100% organic fertilizer through a process of bacterial fermentation. NAU has successfully tested the agriculture inputs on multiple crops in different agriculture environments. We have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with NAU to use the technology to manufacture and sell 100% organic inputs to farmers. When farmers use this cost-effective organic fertilizer, they reduce the use of toxic fertilizers that are harmful to the environment.

Key Activities:

• We make Sparkle banana fiber sanitary pads using patent pending technology and sell them in India.
• Through “Buy One, Give One” initiative, we donate sanitary pads in rural communities.
• We conduct menstrual hygiene awareness seminars and aim to scale our manufacturing operations to maximize our impact.

Cost Structure:

• In India, conventional plastic pads (XL) cost around INR 7 – 15 (US$ 0.10 - $0.21) per piece on average and the eco-friendly pads range from around INR 20 – INR 40 ($0.28 - $0.57) per pad on average.
• We offer biodegradable, plastic free, chemical free and sustainable sanitary pads starting from INR 8 (US$ 0.10) per pad to INR 21 (US$ 0.30) per pad in India depending on different size, type, raw materials and packaging options.

Value proposition:

• Many women with sensitive skin suffer from irritation, infections and rashes due to chemicals used in commercial pads. Health-conscious and eco-conscious women are open to trying natural alternatives. However, due to lack of affordable sustainable options, they keep using conventional pads.

Marketing, Sales and Distribution:

• We sell Sparkle pads though our website, Amazon as well as eco-oriented shops and pharmacies.
• We aim to spread awareness about menstruation and healthy sanitary pads though our social media channels, beauty bloggers, influencers and prominent press contacts.
• We actively participate in world-renowned competitions and conferences to get exposure, build network and spread our message to a large audience. 

After spending over two years on product development and R&D, we launched Sparkle banana fibre sanitary pads in India in December 2019 through online (Direct to consumer) channel.

We have been receiving overwhelmingly positive response from our customers. In terms of comfort, flexibility and absorbency, Sparkle pads' performance is similar or superior compared to conventional plastic pads according to our customers. In the past few months, we have sold over 150,000 sanitary pads and generated more than $50,000 in revenue.

Besides revenue generate from sales, we are exploring a number of alternatives for raising funds to sustain our operations, install new machinery, introduce new products and scale our production to reach more women and maximize our impact.

• Raising funds through crowdfunding: We have raised over US$200,000 from a crowdfunding platform, Republic where less than 3% of start-ups that apply are selected after passing through their due diligence and investment committee.
• Pitched our idea on a TV show: We pitched our idea to Tim Draper, the early investor in more than 30 unicorns, including Tesla, Skype, Bitcoin, and SpaceX as well as Bill Draper, Polly Draper as one of top 27 start-ups that were selected to be a part of Meet The Drapers. We won the first round.
• We are also applying to suitable grants and participating in competitions, conferences and awards across the globe for social enterprise. 

With one co-founder being a mechanical engineer and another being a chartered accountant and a lawyer, we started developing patent pending technology to extract banana fiber and make sustainable sanitary pads by injecting US$10,000 from our own savings in mid-2017.

So far, we have invested around US$100,000 to purchase necessary raw materials and machines and to launch sustainable Sparkle sanitary pads in the market.

We have raised over US$200,000 from a crowdfunding platform called Republic where less than 3% of start-ups that apply are selected after passing through their due diligence and investment committee.

We launched Sparkle banana fiber sanitary pads in India in December 2019. So far, we have generated more than $50,000 in revenue.

We have contacted multiple companies that sell used sanitary pad machines as well as suppliers that sell new machines. Depending on machine brand, configurations (semi-automatic vs. fully automatic) and machine speed (150 to 1500 pieces per minute), the cost of a machine may vary from US$ 150,000 to US$ 1,500,000.

• Primary type of funding we seek: Grant
• Secondary type of funding we seek: Debt
• We have already completed our first equity crowd funding raise of over $200,000 this year

We aim to raise up to US$ 1M in 2020-2021.

Depending on the funds we raise as well as revenue generated from our sales, we aim to purchase either a pre-owned or semi-automatic sanitary pad machine (150-350 pieces per minute with approximate cost of $150,000 - $550,000) or fully automatic machine (500-800 pieces per minute with approximate cost of $600,000 - $1,500,000).

For the past two years, we focused on product development and building a scalable business model. At the moment, we are focusing on manufacturing, mainly on how we can optimize our production efficiency and take advantage of economy of scale to decrease our overall product cost. Simultaneously, we are also focusing on establishing effective sales and distribution channel.

Majority of funds we raise in 2020 will go towards procurement of fully automatic or semi-automatic sanitary pad machine and required raw materials.  

The global feminine hygiene product market is a multi-billion dollar industry that is dominated by a handful of large corporations. They manufacture non-biodegradable sanitary pads made of plastic and other petro-chemical by-products. We have worked very hard to develop a natural product that is highly capable of disrupting current market. We are applying for The Elevate Prize because we need help in the following areas to grow our market share aggressively and maximize our overall impact.

Grant/Funding: The only major barrier that may have an effect on the magnitude of our potential impact is a financial barrier as our ability to install fully automatic sanitary pad production line and to scale our operation primarily depends on how much capital we can inject in 2020 and 2021. We seek to get connected to impact investors in the circular economy space for capital injection to scale our operations and install fully automatic sanitary napkin production line.

Mentorship: We are looking for advisory board members with experience in scalability and commercialization. We seek mentorship and guidance to grow our business on global scale and have maximum possible impact.

Networking: We hope to get connected with other teams who are passionately making a positive impact in the world by supporting circular economy. We also seek to discover influencers who can help us with increasing our brand visibility on a global platform. 

Grant/funding: We seek to get connected to impact investors in the circular economy space for capital injection/grant to scale our operations and install fully automatic sanitary napkin production line.

Mentorship: We are looking for advisory board members with experience in scalability and commercialization. We seek mentorship and guidance to grow our business on global scale and have maximum possible impact.

Marketing, media, and exposure: We seek to discover influencers who can help us with increasing our brand visibility on a global platform. We also hope to get connected with other teams who are passionately making a positive impact in the world by supporting circular economy. 

Supply Chain and Distribution:

We seek to connect with leading organizations with established supply chain and distribution network across Asia, North America and Europe.

Impact Maximization:

With our “Buy One, Give One” initiative, we donate a pad to a girl in need with every Sparkle purchase. We seek to connect with global NGOs that are active at grassroots levels such as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation or relevant representatives from the UN who can guide us with NGO collaborations to ensure that donated sanitary pads reach girls and women that need them the most. With increased production capacity and donation target, we aim to distribute sanitary pads to refugee camps and health camps in conflict zones across the globe.