#MEET Mobile Period Cramp Reliever

#MEET Mobile Period Cramp Reliever

This is a short interview we conducted with Myat Moe Khaing, the founder of “Mobile Period Cramp Reliever”. If you like the concept of this idea and would like to vote for it, click HERE.

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• What is your background?

I am 21 year old Bangladeshi studying Bachelors of Business Administration. I am currently a writer of the national English daily, The Daily Star. My name is Myat Moe Khaing and the name of my project is Mobile Period Cramp Reliever.

• Describe your idea or project in two sentences.

Mobile period cramp reliever is a portable package of a warm compress that acts as a hot water bag and home made women underwear. Its production incorporates employment of indigenous women and its purpose is to increase women participation in work and education.

• What are the benefits you take from the Entrepreneurship Campus?

The online training courses have clarified a number of misconceptions. Besides, the interaction among participants have led to forming an idea of problems faced in different corners of the world and the global spirit entrepreneurs share in solving those issues.

• What motivates you to be an entrepreneur?

The idea of giving back to my community is a key factor. Besides, creating something on my own and seeing it actively help people is itself a reward.

• Imagine you have ‚supreme power’ to create and innovate: how would your world look like? What changes would you like to make in your community and/or in the world? Share your thoughts from a ‚supreme power’ and entrepreneur standpoint.

My world will be devoid of patriarchy and an ideal world with gender equality. In my imagination, toxic gender roles will cease to exist. Men and women will be able to live the best of their potentials. Adolescent girls will no longer have to fall back given the nature of their body and society's outlook towards it. I live in a society where the topic of menstruation is a taboo. The society shushes girls to acceptance of their fate rising from their birth lottery. It's important to understand that differences do exist, but it should not lead to discrimination. As an entrepreneur, the change I see is making a difference in the lives of girls and women, the biggest untapped potential.

• What would you say to potential voters who may be reading your interview?

My dad who is a doctor is one phone call away when I lay in bed, writhing in pain of period cramps. However, there are times when the pain reaches a level when I can hardly get up to even drink a glass of water. My heart goes back to those indigenous girls in the hills who face bigger repercussions: dropping out and missing out on work. My idea is not to ease their lives, but to give them a fairer opportunity. I have connected my personal experiences to a plausible solution that can be a stepping stone to gender equality. Mobile period cramp reliever not only gives relief, it engages women in contributing to a society that direly needs them. Besides, women can make it at their home and earn in the process of lifting the helpless. It would mean a lot to me if you go through my idea. Getting this issue addressed will be a big takeaway if it gets the discourse running. Vote for my idea only if you like it.

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