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INCINERATOR TO BURN USED NAPKINS IN GIRLS’ SCHOOLS

BY P S SUNDAR

A very useful facility that respects the personal hygiene of girl students and the environmental hygiene in the schools comes in the use of incinerators to burn used sanitary napkins in applicable schools.

It was, therefore, encouraging to see Lions Club of Nilgiris coming forward to install incinerators at possible schools.

The Governor of Lions District 324 B1 P Arumugam Mani dedicated incinerator and sanitary napkin supplying machines of Lions Club of Nilgiris to students of St Mary’s Girls’ Higher Secondary School, Coonoor, on Feb 20, 2015.

                    

“Incinerators are in use only in a couple of schools in the Nilgiris. We will provide incinerators to all needy schools. We will install one more incinerator at St Mary’s as the requirement here is large”, he told me.

    “We will soon be installing napkin supplying machine and incinerator in two more schools -- Shanthi Vijaya and St Ann’s.  These three packages entail a total outlay of Rs 1.80 lakh.  Another incinerator at St Mary’s is extra”, Sunil Goyal, President of Lions Club of Nilgiris, said.  

“We will bear entire cost of setting up the machines and maintenance”, Club secretary Jatin Vakharia said.

“We are grateful to Lions Club of Nilgiris for installing this facility. It is a very useful project that will benefit 1,300 students in our school.  We are teaching girls on personal hygiene and responsible way of disposing off used sanitary napkins”, St Mary’s Headmistress Sister Amalorpavamary said.

Lions International is observing the theme ‘Strengthen the Pride’. Lions District 324 B1 is strengthening the Nilgiri pride with its theme ‘Aspire to Achieve’.   Strengthening the pride of girl children will help them to aspire to achieve and celebrate womanhood – a healthy way to create a healthy society.