Hygiene Projects
Overview
Achieving and maintaining good health is challenging where there are inadequate sanitatory practices and a lack of clean drinking water facilities. 5H volunteers help create vital awareness about hygiene through various awareness programs. They help in:
- finding and providing clean drinking water
- developing clean surroundings and a garbage disposal system
- organizing camps on personal hygiene
- creating drainage and sanitation awareness
The 5H volunteers inspire participants of the program to take responsibility for their surroundings by initiating clean-up drives, and initiating other projects as per the need of the region.
Implementing Garbage Collection and Disposal System
Complete garbage removal and disposal system will be implemented in Hinjawadi village, Pune, India. This includes placing Garbage Collecting Bins across Hinjawadi Village. Employees from the local municipality...
Plentiful Water
Participants of The Art of Livingโs Youth Leadership Training Program (YLTP) took it on themselves to reach out to villagers of Devool-Vadsa, a small village in Dharva taluka of Yavatmal. Starting in December...
Better Health with Toilets
The access to toilets has helped many villages to overcome many diseases. Earlier the practice was to answer natureโs call in the fields, leading to breeding of mosquitoes. Also women would have to relieve...
Abundant Water
The New English High School run by Shri Swami Vivekanand Shikshan Sanstha Trust was established in 1992. Rendering service to students around the area, the school did not have a water facility since its...
Cleanliness Awareness Program
Inspired by Breath-Water-Sound workshop, 380 Students (8th to 10th Standard) of the New English School took part in a Cleanliness Awareness Program conducted on 9th Nov 2006 Cleanliness Camp In February...
Unprecedented water supply for adivasis
For the first time, 1,300 adivasis in a small village in Yavatmal, Maharashtra, have plentiful water for their crops. Each household also has an individual toilet. These revolutionary changes occurred...
A clean sweep makes a difference in Hisar
โFor a boy like me who has never cleaned up his room, I picked up a lot of waste material lying on the streets of Red Square Market,โ shares Arjun Singh, a student. โI am grateful for having an opportunity...
Constructing toilets to combat open defecation
A software engineer constructing toilets in the villages of Andhra Pradesh is a rare sight. This is precisely what you will find Sudhakar Veeravalli doing. Armed with a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering...
Creating ODF villages one area at a time
Creating ODF villages, one area at a time An ordinary and inevitable room of a house can change someoneโs life. Extraordinarily. Weโre talking about a bathroom, more specifically, a toilet. A one-pointed...
Kathewadi: An ideal village from another time
Sangeeta Anand visits Kathewadi village in Maharashtra's Nanded district to see an amazing transformation. We are finally in view of Kathewadi, a tiny village in the back of the beyond in Nanded district...
The unbelievable story of Kapsi: From drought to water sufficiency
Life has changed completely for Dadasaheb Khatar, a farmer who lives in Kapsi village located on the dusty two-lane Phaltan-Satara highway. His days of long wait for tankers are over. He no longer looks...
Health and Hygiene
Overview 5.6 million people benefited by 165,000 free stress-relief camps 49,500 hygiene camps and 25,950 medical camps 5,418 toilets built in rural village and urban slums communities Over the last 37...
How this lady is bringing communities together to fight against open-defecation and superstitions
The tribal community and the economically backward community in Jharkhandโs Khuchidih village had, for the first time, come together for an event. The occasion was a community-building and empowerment...
