Women from the Nicobar Islands have came up with a creative hack for feminine products handed out by Westerners:
Global NGOs brought in thousands of packets of sanitary napkins and distributed them to the Nicobarese tribal women this year. “Our women don’t use sanitary napkins, so they first used them as toilet paper because there was a water crisis in the islands. Then they made pillows out of them…” [Link]
But cultural misunderstandings can cut both ways. I wonder what NGO women think Indian-style pillows are for:
