Ananya Chhaochharia

Founder/Director (Ananya Chhaochharia); Co-founder (Niharika Sharma)

Ananya Chhaochharia is the founder/director (ananya chhaochharia); co-founder (niharika sharma) of Paint It Red [1], an Indian non-profit working on women & children and healthcare from Kolkata.

Paint It Red

Paint It Red campaigns against period poverty and the stigma surrounding menstruation, which it frames as a matter of basic rights. Its work has included distributing menstrual hygiene kits during the COVID-19 crisis under the Bleed in Peace campaign, dialogue series on sustainable menstruation, and art sales that fund reusable cloth pads for semi-urban and rural India.