Summary
This project provides community sanitation and hygiene education for 70 families to foster a healthy and clean society.
What is the issue, problem, or challenge?
*Open defecation and water borne diseases are caused by contamination on the banks of River Cauvery in Tamil Nadu.
*Providing sustainable sanitation systems and capacity building and education at different levels - family, school and local governing body.
How will this project solve this problem?
By providing ecological toilets, we curb open defecation and reduce considerably the diarrheal deaths. By training, we make them self-sustaining and inculcate the best practices in sanitation.
Potential Long Term Impact
70 families, or 3500 people directly from the project
Potentially, over 10,000 people from neighbouring villages on education.
Project Message
In-spite of the communication barrier, the girls at the orphanage, said only one simple sentence in English that showed why human dignity matters more than anything else: We like you.
- Anbarasi Boopal, Research Manager, during the visit to project site
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $90
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding.
Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as
indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the
"Project Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $90
.
The original project funding goal was $180,000.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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