This is brilliant

[benid]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26260978

This is on the BBC website today. I think there's a documentary too:

"A school dropout from a poor family in southern India has revolutionised menstrual health for rural women in developing countries by inventing a simple machine they can use to make cheap sanitary pads."

Oh I read that with the most enormous smile on my face.

Same!

Thanks for posting, it's a real eye opener to realise just how far women in most of world still have to go.

DD2 has just started her periods so the 23% of girls drop out of school at that point really hit home.

That is an amazing 'fall and rise' story. I'm so pleased he and his wife got back together! (Ahem, and the whole point of the story is inspiring too, of course.)

Wow,
just brilliant

I read this earlier today, and it made me smile so much. What a fab man!

I'm sure I saw this story on mainstream TV couple of years ago

Not that there's any harm in telling it again!

Thanks for that benid. Lovely story!

Delighted to report that it made (my sometimes a bit sexist DH) smile for the right reasons.

He has two teen DD's so we keep up the training.

Wow

DH said that it was something he'd never thought of before. It made him (and I) very happy. Thanks for posting the link, brilliant stuff.

Wow.

Very inspirational.

Thanks for posting. So inspiring.

proper inventor's spirit!
If they make the story into a film, I'll go to see it

It's great to see this getting coverage! Wonderful story

It would make a great film!

Fantastic link, thank you.