The document summarizes the work of social entrepreneur Arunachalam Muruganantham from India who invented a low-cost machine for making sanitary pads after recognizing that many women in rural India could not afford commercially available pads. His invention has helped generate awareness about menstruation and women's health issues in rural communities by making pads more affordable and accessible. The document also outlines the design thinking process he followed which included empathizing with people's needs, exploring ideas through many failed prototypes before succeeding, and creating a solution to improve people's lives according to their needs.

1. -Akanksha Mishra

2. Human Centric Desig
roblem Solving Approach
Human Centric Design
Problem Solving Approach
Making Biosphere Happy

4. Arunachalam Muruganantham (Padman)
• Social entrepreneur from Coimbatore in
Tamil Nadu
• Inventor of a low-cost sanitary
pad-making machine
•Credited for innovating grassroots
mechanisms for generating awareness
about menstruation.
• In 2016, he was awarded the Padma
Shri by the Government of India.

5. Recognize the
problem
Spreading
Happiness
Idea of problem
solving

6. Framework Of
Design Thinking
Explore Ideate Create Evolve

7. Only 36 Percent Women Use
Sanitary Pads In India.
Around 70% of women in India
can't afford to buy them.
Using dirty cloth during
menstruation is very unsafe.
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Empathies with people.

8. Tried to make a pad by
himself at a very low cost

9. Failed many times
Successful at the end

10. Focus on Improving
Work According to
people’s needs

12. TAM
SAM
SOM

13. Thankyou!