Mission and Vision
Uninhibited has de-stigmatised menstrual, sexual and reproductive health for 250,000+ marginalised menstruators in 10 states across India. We’ve seen menstruators seek healthcare and support, reclaim spaces at school, workplaces and communities, eventually leading to reduced gender inequity and better health and wellbeing. Support our journey to reach 1.8 million menstruators, men and boys by 2027.

2014
Co-founded by Dilip Kumar Pattubala & Sahana P Bhat with a vision to make menstruation a non-issue. We started out solely as a period product distributor, selling pads at scale, until we noticed that we were only reaching marginalised menstruators who were already using sanitary pads.

2015
Recruited our first five field team members who came from similarly marginalised backgrounds and conducted mass MHH awareness rallies to amplify period product adoption.

2016
Identified the need to create safe spaces and enable conversations to normalise menstruation, founding PeriodShala.

2017
While PeriodShala was an effective behaviour change programme – we acknowledged that we would not be able to reach all menstruators in India as the model could not viably be replicated at scale.

2018
Launched The Period Fellowship to nurture high potential talent to lead the MHH ecosystem. Period Fellows were placed across 7 states in India, impacting +40,000 menstruators over 15 months.

2019
Founded the Period Lab to test and build innovative evidence-based approaches to uninhibiting menstruators. Began testing a revised PeriodShala programme that included men and adolescent boys, and launched the PeriodPreneur programme to accelerate other MHH organisations in the ecosystem.

2020
In response to COVID-19, launched Hello Saathi a free menstrual, sexual and reproductive telehealth helpline to sustain and scale access to healthcare during the pandemic.

2021
Impacted +200,000 menstruators, men and boys through PeriodShala, Hello Saathi, The Period Fellowship and PeriodPreneur programmes. Recognised as Uninhibited, in partnership with Gramin Vikas Samiti.