Skoon Lappie
Skoon Lappie (South African for ‘Clean Towel’) - part of MKI’s ‘Your Hygiene – Your Health’ program - is a project initiated by four students of the Delft University of Technology (TU) in the Netherlands to investigate the possibilities to increase “the acceptance, the availability and the affordability of hygienic means for women and girls in developing countries”
The students – Suze Gehem, Floor van Goudoever, Alertien Greijdanus and Judith van der Werf – were students studying for their Industrial Design master degree at the TU in Delft.
“We found alarming results during our preliminary investigation”, say the students from Delft, “for example that girls miss school because menstrual protection is simply too expensive.”
They invented a concept to tackle this problem in a socially and economically durable manner: the production of sanitary towels with local material by local women. In the meantime a working group has been set up to develop this concept in more detail.
The students – who have in the meantime graduated– are still very much involved in this project.
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