Social entrepreneurship in India: Cut from a different cloth | The Economist
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Aakar Innovations, a Delhi-based start-up (...) have developed a machine that produces low-cost sanitary napkins using as raw materials agri-waste such as banana fibre, bamboo and water-hyacinth pulp. (...)
To bypass the current female-unfriendly distribution system, Aakar aims to sell its machines for 250,000 rupees ($4,000) a time to groups of women. The finished item will be sold door-to-door by village saleswomen who also hawk solar lamps, stoves and saris. It will be distributed, too, in women-run grocery stores and beauty parlours.
(...) the country is awash with hundreds of local brands. Yet, unusually, Aakar’s product “meets the standards of the Western world and can compete with all global brands”
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