How To Make A Reusable Sanitary Pad: LaunchPad
In 2019, Taylor’s Hostel Management (THM) initiated the LaunchPad project, a flagship Service-Learning Programme to end menstruation poverty among female refugees living in Malaysia. In January 2021, THM's team reached out to Taylor's Design School to seek help to codify the pad-making process in the form of an instructional poster.
The challenge required us to create an instructional poster to enable refugee communities to lead and run LaunchPad workshops and become their own pad producers. We had to identify the main parts of the complex process and codify it graphically.
The biggest challenge was to communicate the instructions visually. Most of our users are illiterate, some of them do not even understand the meaning of a smiley face. It took a lot of trial and error and back-and-forth communication until we finally came up with the final poster that fulfilled all the needs.
The poster is translated into 6 languages: Somali, Burmese, Malay, Arabic, Persian and Urdu.
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Should you wish to download or disseminate the instructional poster (mobile or A1 poster), you can obtain the content here.
June 2021
