Stonesoup Trust

Advocates for sustainable period care, driving awareness, supporting livelihoods, and offering eco-friendly products, striving to create greener periods and promoting environmentally conscious choices

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  • 80G
  • 12A
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About

  • Headquarters

    Bangalore, Karnataka

Stonesoup Trust focuses on promoting sustainable period care and practices in rural, tribal and low-income areas across the country. It operates aware Read moreness campaigns, donations, and livelihood-building programmes. Its goal is to achieve greener periods- safeguarding the ecosystem from disposable menstrual hygiene products. It creates sustainable products like menstrual cups, cotton pads, and bio-cleaners. It runs an online portal that acts as a market for its eco-friendly products. Its mission is to become a global leader in green choices.

Demographies Served

Impact

The Stonesoup Trust has made an impact by diverting 12 million pads from landfills, composting 10 tonnes of wet waste daily, and eliminating 5 million plastic bags through its cloth bag campaigns in Mumbai.

Programs

  • Awareness- Period Love Sessions Programme

    Period Love Sessions aim to reclaim the cultural significance and respect associated with menstruation. The goal is to make menstruation an exciting and positive experience once again. The organisation conducts sessions in various communities, corporates, schools, and colleges, spreading awareness and promoting a healthy attitude towards periods. It has also shifted to online platforms.

  • Donations- Gifting Happy Periods Programme

    Gifting Happy Periods is an initiative by Stonesoup that focuses on donating sustainable period care products instead of disposable sanitary napkins. Stonesoup encourages the donation of reusable options. It runs various campaigns, such as donating menstrual cups to COVID warriors, providing cloth pad kits to PAD SQUAD, and distributing cloth pad kits to economically disadvantaged individuals.

  • Project Green Dot

    The GreenDot project is focused on establishing sustainable menstrual period care units in all 720 districts of India. This initiative aims to create employment opportunities for women by producing modern cloth pads and raising awareness about sustainable menstrual hygiene products like cloth pads and menstrual cups. The mission of GreenDot is to initiate a new conversation around menstruation that changes how communities perceive periods. The project aims to reduce sanitary waste and promote eco-friendly practices while empowering women. GreenDot has already been successfully established in various locations including Dharwad, Mandya, Dindigul, Bhadrak, Siddipet, and Mysore.

Leadership Team

  • Smita Kulkarni

    Co - Founder

  • Malini Parmar

    Co - Founder

  • Padma Subramanian

    Head - Stonesoup Trust

Demographics & Structure

  • No. of Employees

    6-20

M&E

  • Internal, External Assessors

    No

Policies

  • Ethics and Transparency Policies

    No

  • Formal CEO Oversight & Compensation Policy

    No

Political & Religious Declarations

  • On Affiliation if any

    No

  • On Deployment Bias if any

    No

Registration Details

  • PAN Card

    AAWTS3765L

  • Registration ID

    BKIV/153/2018-19

  • VO ID / Darpan ID

    KA/2023/0341938

  • 12A

    AAWTS3765LE20217

  • 80G

    AAWTS3765LF20223

  • FCRA

    Not Available

  • CSR Registration Number

    Not Available

Location

  • Headquarters

    No 31, 1st Main, 1 st Block, Koramangala, Bangalore, 560034

    Directions

Other Details

  • Type & Sub Type

    Non-profit
    Trust