Crony Group gets sanitary napkin vending machines
Workers can purchase items at a factory management-subsidized 80% discount.
For female garment factory employees, Crony Group‘s smart vending machines offer sanitary napkins.
According to a press release, workers can buy with an 80% discount that has been provided by the factory management.
Around 3,000 female garment employees at the Abanti Color Tex factory Crony Group in Narayanganj now have easy access to sanitary napkins because to a recent installation by Vertical Innovation of an autonomous Jyoti vending machine.
Neela Hosna Ara, BGMEA Director and Chairperson of Crony Group, took the effort to make sanitary pads easily accessible to Crony Group employees by installing smart vending machines.
Other recent initiatives of the Group Chairperson include Mitro, a platform for distributing advance wages, and The Fair Price Shop of Apon Wellbeing for everyday essentials. These are in addition to the Jyoti sanitary pad vending machines.
At the Crony Group factory in Narayanganj, the Jyoti smart vending program was launched in the presence of Group Chairperson and BGMEA Director Neela Ara, AH Aslam Sunny, Managing Director, Crony Group, and CEO of Vertical Innovations Rezwan Ahmed Noor.
Neela Hosna Ara stated, “This project is part of our efforts to protect the physical and emotional health of women who work in the apparel industry so that they can work effortlessly and comfortably throughout their periods.
“We have spent billions of dollars on compliance and retrofitting,” AH Aslam Sunny said. I now implore all customers and suppliers to cooperate and improve the conditions for manufacturing workers.
According to Rezwan Ahmed Noor, the chief executive officer of Vertical Innovation, there are more than 32 lakh women employed in the garment industry nationwide.
Menstruation-related absences from work account for an average of 72 days annually, which hinders the growth of the nation’s apparel industry.
Installing vending machines and making it simple for female textile workers to purchase low-cost napkins will fix this issue.
More than 60,000 female garment workers and students of various ages can now access necessary sanitary napkins at affordable prices from the campuses of workplaces and educational institutions during periods thanks to 148 vending machines that Vertical Innovation has so far installed in various garment factories, schools, colleges, and universities across the nation.
