Sanitation

In Coimbatore City, people from all walks of life are coming together to build toilets in every household. The City is on a construct-a-thon to make itself open defecation free.

Indo-Canadian Girish Agarwal scaled the heights of Mt Kilimanjaro as part of his campaign, Summit For Dignity, to raise money to build clean toilets in Indian schools.

Mizoram has seen a commendable decline in stunting and it is directly related to improved access to sanitation. Here is the complete report on how it happened.

The World Bank has approved a Rs 10,000 crore loan to support the Swachh Bharat campaign. The project will focus on improving sanitation in rural India.

This team of architects is making sure the urban poor get better homes with sanitation. Not only do they provide them with better dwellings within the city, they also create more income generation opportunities for the women living in the slums. Here is how they are rehabilitating slum dwellers and redesigning their living spaces.

Residents of Agra who do not throw garbage in the proper way will now be shamed by sanitary workers in the city. Workers will stand in front of their houses or shops and play drums to make them and others realise the importance of cleanliness in the city.

No one supported Anita's idea of having a toilet in the house. But this 21-year-old did not give up and started making one all by herself. She used her scholarship fees to construct a toilet and made sure that she would never have to go to the nearby forest for defecation any more.

A thoughtful brother in MP saw that his sister is facing many troubles due to the unavailability of toilets in their village. So he started constructing a toilet for her, and completed it right on time, as a Rakhi gift. Here's more.

One woman is a teacher, makes teaching aids, talks to women, helps women in running their own little company, provides low cost sanitary pads to rural women and much more. Swati proves that superwomen do exist.

Children in this village form a team and act as "commandos" to make sure that no one is found defecating in the open. They keep blowing a whistle till the person defecating in open abandons the act.