Water
Management
Sanitation
Preventive Health Care and Education |
Sanitation |
The need
for latrines (privies) to improve sanitation
and convenience has been increasing rapidly
as a result of campaigns mounted by CBOs and
women's groups supported by us.
The support for these programmes consists of
a promotional communication plan and
provision of small grants for the purchase
of building materials, the actual
construction work being the responsibility
of the beneficiary household itself. Often,
the members of the women’s groups and the
CBOs help each other install latrines in
villages. This support is also extended to
widows, deserted women, female headed
households, single women and elderly people
in the village who have limited resources
and need help in installing latrines. For
example women help each other in collecting
construction material (stones, sand etc.)
locally and in digging pits. The usefulness
of these latrines is so manifest, that in
many villages families are constructing them
on their own with no assistance at all. So
far, about 10,000 latrines have been
installed in over 500 villages with our
support.
In the beginning of the programme about 120
latrines were installed in government
schools and villages as demonstration sites.
This was to raise awareness and educate
parents and children about the need of
sanitation facility at home, as in some
remote villages people had not even seen a
latrine and it was considered an unhygienic,
‘dirty place’. The programme linked
provision of sanitation with cleanliness and
health. Availability of water for hygiene
and to keep the facility clean was a major
issue addressed.
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