{"id":11882,"date":"2023-09-04T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T18:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/?p=11882"},"modified":"2023-09-04T00:01:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T18:31:02","slug":"gravittus-foundation-donated-incinerator-machine-to-the-poona-school-home-for-blind-girls-kothrud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/?p=11882","title":{"rendered":"Gravittus Foundation donated incinerator machine to the Poona school &amp; home for blind girls, Kothrud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>says Usha Kakade, founder of Gravittus\u00a0Foundation while handing over\u00a0incinerator machine to\u00a0the Poona blind girls school<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pune :&nbsp;Menstruation is not openly talked about even today. but awareness&nbsp;to be made about menstrual health &amp; hygiene.&nbsp;Proper use of sanitary pads and their disposal after use is essential.&nbsp;This incinerator machine will be useful for the decomposition of sanitary pads, says Usha Kakade, founder of Gravittus Foundation.<br>Usha Kakade was speaking at the Poona school &amp; home for blind girls, Kothrud while handing over the&nbsp;incinerator machine. Gravittus&nbsp;Foundation donated this machine with the help of&nbsp;Jagruti Foundation. Swanandi Rath-Deshmukh of Jagruti Foundation, Trupti Pimpalkar of Nevex, Dr. Purva Ketkar counsellor and Damodar Sargam, principal of the school were present on the occasion.<br>Usha Kakade said, mental beauty is more important than physical beauty. The Poona blind school is doing commendable work for these blind girls.&nbsp;A sincere effort and good work leads to success in any field.&nbsp;Through the foundation, we are working for the health and safety of women and children.&nbsp;More than five lakh students have been trained so far through the &#8216;Good Touch Bad Touch&#8217;&nbsp;project.Swanandi Rath-Deshmukh mentioned that Jagruti Foundation is working for the menstrual health amongst the teenage girls and women.&nbsp;So far, 14 thousand girls with disabilities have been given awareness about menstruation, as well as sanitary pads. This activity will be important for these blind girls to get a clean and healthy environment during menstruation.&#8221;<br>Dr. Purva Ketkar guided girls about menstrual health hygiene. Trupti Pimpalkar explained how to use an incinerator&nbsp;machine and gave a demonstration. Savita Waghmare gave a welcome address. Damodar Sargam expressed his gratitude towards both the organizations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>says Usha Kakade, founder of Gravittus\u00a0Foundation while handing over\u00a0incinerator machine to\u00a0the Poona blind girls school Pune :&nbsp;Menstruation is not openly talked about even today. but awareness&nbsp;to be made about menstrual health &amp; hygiene.&nbsp;Proper use of sanitary pads and their disposal after use is essential.&nbsp;This incinerator machine will be useful for the decomposition of sanitary pads, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-activity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11884,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11882\/revisions\/11884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}