Hygiene projects launched

The Tamil Nadu chapter of Indian Red Cross launched a slew of hygiene-promoting programmes, including a napkin vending machine for adolescent girls and clinical laboratories in 32 district centres of the service organisation in the state. The organisation has also earlier launched the solid waste management pilot project in five villages of the coastal districts of Cuddalore, Nagapattinam, Tiruvarur, Pudukottai and Thanjavur. The purpose of the project was to create awareness on health and hygiene among the youth in the rural areas.