Nexus Select Trust expands women's health programme to 15 cities

Nexus Select Trust scaled its #HappynessForHER women's health initiative to 15 Indian cities, engaging more than 125,000 women and girls during Cervical Cancer Awareness Month in January. The expansion sets measurable social-impact benchmarks for corporate ESG performance in India, targeting 300,000 women reached by 2030.

Nexus Select Trust expanded its flagship #HappynessForHER initiative to 15 Indian cities, focusing on menstrual hygiene education, health awareness, and access to sustainable sanitation products. The latest phase coincided with Cervical Cancer Awareness Month in January, engaging more than 125,000 women and girls through structured sessions on menstrual health, cervical cancer, and PCOS. Over 500 workshops were delivered and more than 20 lakh sanitary napkins distributed. The Trust targets reaching 300,000 women by 2030.

The programme targets women and girls in urban and semi-urban settings, including students at schools supported by Trust community initiatives. Workshops in Mangalore and Navi Mumbai engaged over 1,000 girls per location, with Gurgaon sessions expected to reach another 1,000 girls. Planned expansion into government schools in Chandigarh, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar, Bengaluru, and Delhi is estimated to impact more than 8,000 additional girls. Trained educators deliver science-backed information countering misinformation and societal taboos around women's health.

Nexus Select Trust combines education with product accessibility, installing sanitary pad dispensers at select locations for sustainable availability. CEO Dalip Sehgal noted India accounts for nearly 20% of global cervical cancer cases annually, underscoring persistent awareness and access gaps. Indian corporates can treat such measurable outreach targets as benchmarks for ESG social-impact reporting. Companies should monitor how aligning outreach goals with sustainable hygiene access supports both community resilience and corporate ESG credibility in the Indian landscape.

Key figure — Outreach target: 300,000 women by 2030