Mu Lu is teaching local women to use his invention to make cheap sanitary napkins Machine. (1 / 2 sheets)
for the majority of female friends, in every month "inconvenient days", there is no need for sanitary napkins as a good helper. But in India, many poor women can not afford sanitary napkins, and can only use rags or simpler things to deal with. To this end, India man Mu Lou Canan Sam (hereinafter referred to as Mu Lu) has developed a machine to produce cheap sanitary napkins for several years, allowing more women to use sanitary napkins in India.
this inventions made musu get a lot of praise, and he's going to promote the rest of the world so that women in poorer areas can use sanitary napkins. In the list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2014, the name of Mu Lu appeared in the column of pioneers.
Mu Lu's motive for starting the invention is simple: let his wife not have to worry about buying food or sanitary napkins. This story tells us that women's needs are always the most powerful driving force for men to invent.
motivation
wives use rags as sanitary napkins
"I do all this because of my wife." Said musu.
1998, Mu Lu married Shang Di. The newly married man turns around his wife all day. One day, he found out that his wife was hiding things and went suspiciously.
"to tell you the truth, it's not necessary to wipe the motorcycle for me." Said musu. He didn't expect his wife to take it as a sanitary napkin.
"why not buy sanitary napkins?" He asked. His wife told him that he could not afford it. Once he bought a sanitary napkin, he could not buy milk or other daily products.
when he heard his wife say this, Mouru was very sad. In order to please his wife, he went to town to buy sanitary napkins. He remembered the clerk's covertly handed the sanitary napkin to him as if it were a shameful thing.
he weighed the sanitary napkin in the palm
weighing only about 10 grams but sold 4 rupees (about 0.41 yuan), which was 40 times the price of the same weight cotton. Mu Lu puzzled: why is the price difference so big? Can the sanitary napkin be cheaper?
Mu Lu later learned that there were many women who could not use sanitary napkins like their wives. Some people say that buying something for yourself means buying less for children. Many women do not know the health knowledge of menstrual period. There are many kinds of menstrual products. Besides old cloth, there are sand, sawdust, leaves and even ashes. People generally regard women's menstruation as unclean and disgraceful. They do not understand the need for exposure to menstrual cloth, and feel ashamed to do so.
Mu Lu is determined to change this situation. He used cotton homemade sanitary napkins to let his wife try it out. He asked his sister to try with other familiar women, but they refused him out of shame and suspicion. He went to the local medical school to find a college girl, persuaded 20 people to try out the sanitary napkins he produced, but only 3 people gave him feedback on the trial.
use some sanitary towel brand produced by this machine. (2 / 2)
the twists and turns of
wife and widow left
under the helplessness of
everyone around us felt that he was crazy. The villagers saw his underwear, which he had washed and stained, identified that he had contracted venereal disease, and his friends were far away from him.
and his wife could not bear the fact that he spent almost all his time and money in this matter, and could not bear to gossip. "The villagers said he had affairs with other women, so he would do these things." The wife said.
for his wife's departure, Mu Lu mocked himself: "you see, God can make jokes. I started studying this for her, and she left me 18 months later.
but this did not let Mu Lu give up. He started a further study - the medical school girls tried to try out the sanitary napkins he made in different ways, and to recycle the sanitary napkins they used, and to compare the effects of the different materials of sanitary napkins on the blood.
local feudalism and superstition prevailed, and it takes a lot of courage for mu Lu to do so. He said, "even if I ask a woman for her hair, she will doubt that I want to do harm to her."
one afternoon, Mu Lu's widow went to the backyard and saw "dirty things" placed on the ground. She felt "enough". She counted down Mu Lu for a while and then left the house.
"it's in trouble." "I have to cook for myself," musu realized.
the worse is still behind. The villagers thought that Mu Lu was possessed by evil spirits. He would tie his head down to a tree and ask the wizard to exorcise him. Then he would give up after he agreed to move out of the village.
success
India "National Innovation Award"
Mu Lu is not highly educated, want to write to technical experts and not write, so to find a university professor to help. In return, he gave the professor housework. Under the guidance of experts, Mu Lu found the crux of his bad effect of sanitary napkins: he did not add wood pulp to the cotton.
after 4 and a half years of effort, Mu Lu developed a set of equipment for simple production of sanitary napkins, which can produce 200 to 250 pieces of sanitary napkins with ultraviolet rays a day, which is sold for only 2.5 rupees (about 0.26 yuan) per piece.
Indian Institutet of Technology declared the "National Innovation Award" of India's "Mu Lu" equipment, which was the highest among the 943 participating projects. Then president Pratibha Patil awarded the award to Mu Lu.
"glory suddenly comes, and the flash of the media flashes at me." Said musu. Before long, he received a phone call: "remember who I am?" It was the wife, Shang ti. She said she was not surprised at her husband's success. "Once he wants to know something new, he will ask questions, and then he will do what nobody has done." Not long after his wife returned to Mouru, his mother and the villagers who had driven him all changed their minds.
Shang Di is now a good assistant of Mu Lu. She often gives the girls sanitary napkins and introduces some hygienic knowledge. "I felt very embarrassed at first when I talked with others, but then they gradually let go," said Shang Di. Now they will take the initiative to talk to me and ask for a napkin trial. The people in the village have changed a lot. "
popularized
mulu did not succeed in making use of fame after she succeeded in popularizing
in India. He worked with NGOs to give production facilities to women in poor areas, create employment opportunities for them, and enable more women to use sanitary napkins.
he led the staff to preach the hygiene knowledge during the menstrual period, popularize the use of sanitary napkins, but also encountered many resistance.
in some parts of India, local women have never seen sanitary napkins and are afraid to use them. They also suspect that they will lose their sight if they use sanitary napkins and will not find their husbands. There are still very conservative places where women and unfamiliar men must be allowed to be allowed by their husbands or fathers, and menstrual hygiene is a taboo subject.
but mu Lu overcame many difficulties and sent the production of sanitary napkins to 1300 villages in 23 states in India.
he believes that homemade sanitary napkins not only improve the health of women, but also create jobs for them, increase their income and subsidize their families, so that they are free from their mother's plight.
Mu Lu's father died in an early car accident. Her mother worked hard and worked hard to earn 1 dollars a day, not enough to feed 4 children, so that Mouru dropped out of school to find a job.
the equipment for the production of sanitary napkins developed by Mu Lu is easy to operate, and it will only take an hour to learn that these devices are installed in women's homes. In some places, women do not use sanitary napkins in addition to their high prices. Another reason is that they are embarrassed to buy them in shops run by men. But now they can buy sanitary napkins from their sisters at a low price, even with potatoes, shallots and the like, and know the health knowledge of the menstrual period from the seller.
Mu Lu also sent some equipment to the school. "Why wait until they grow up?" Why not create good conditions for them when they are girls? " Said musu.
with Ma Yun into the age of 100 big people
in India, some places of superstition prevail, that women are dirty, forbidden to enter temples or public places, they do not allow them to cook or touch the water. According to a survey conducted by the Nielsen Co commissioned by the India government in 2011, only 12% of India women used sanitary napkins. In addition, 70% of India's reproductive diseases are not related to menstrual hygiene.
Mu Lu invented the machine that produced cheap sanitary napkins, benefiting many women who could not use sanitary napkins because of poverty. Now he plans to promote in other countries of the world, so that more women can use sanitary napkins. "Times" magazine recently published the list of the most influential people in the world in 2014, and Mu Lu appeared in the column of "pioneer figures". Ma Yun and Snowden, the leading character of the Alibaba group, were selected as "pioneer figures" with Mr. Mu Lu.
Gupta, a India journalist and social activist, said in a banter for his recommendation that "feeling is often the most revolutionary emotion".