Slum dwellers live in straitened circumstances - on pavements, besides railway tracks, in swampy and unhygienic surroundings. Financial strain is the major factor for poor housing conditions.
In these circumstances, women’s health is most neglected although they should be specially attentive towards hygiene since they are the caretakers of the health needs of their families.
Poor hygiene and sanitation conditions trigger non-communicable and communicable diseases like jaundice, malaria, cholera as well as various skin diseases and infections. .
You can contribute in a small way to help these women maintain hygienic conditions by distributing a personal hygiene kit containing sanitary napkins, hair oil, shampoo, a comb, a nail-cutter and soap to women from various slum pockets. .