MANA Blantyre, May 29, 2017: Jean Kachikho is mother to a 5-month-old baby and stays in Soche Township in Blantyre. Like most working mothers of the 21st century, Kachikho prefers the use of disposable baby diapers to cloth diapers.

Unlike cloth diapers, usually made of layers of fabric such as cotton and can be washed and reused multiple times, disposable diapers are made of synthetic materials and are thrown away after one use.
The use of disposable diapers is growing, especially among working class women who regard these products less involving in terms of labour, and less time-consuming. Continue reading Dilemma of disposing disposable diapers →