Supporting our sisters
The Unconquered Project empowers women to manufacture and sell affordable sanitary products  in India. The problem of poor menstrual hygiene might be ‘unconquered’ but, more importantly, these sisters have a fighting spirit that is also ‘unconquered’!
Aparajita pads
keep girls in school
Around 23% of girls in India actually drop out of school after they start menstruating. And for those that do stay in school, inadequate menstrual protection means these girls will miss 5 days of school every month – that’s 50 days a year!
Affordable, accessible sanitary pads are important when you know that a girl’s future income will increase by 10-25% for each extra year of education she receives. It is estimated that when a girl receives seven or more years of education, she marries four years later and has 2.2 fewer children, giving her the opportunity to reach her full potential. And an educated mother is more than twice as likely to educate her daughters… so even the generational cycle of poverty and illiteracy can be changed through a simple sanitary pad!
Aparajita pads come with
menstrual education
Aparajita pads give
economic independence
Aparajita pads are
affordable
Aparajita pads are priced by the local team on the ground. The price is not included on the packet but is stamped on according to the needs of the community. For example, where we are distributing to hospitals or organisations, the price will be slightly higher than it will be for rural, at-risk women and girls. The same high-quality product is offered in both situations but one price subsidises the other. The lower price is also managed using the simple distribution method of woman-to-woman sales.
Aparajita pads are
accessible​

our goals
awareness + affordability + accessibility
- Build a facility and purchase machinery for the first sanitary pad factory
- Train 5 women to manufacture Aparajita sanitary pads.
- Train 5 women to market and sell the sanitary pads
- Complete production of our first 50,000 packets of Aparajita pads
We will continue to evaluate and improve so that we can start a second factory as soon as possible.