Heath Education Campaign

Community Led Total Sanitation Though Construction of Latrines

in Rural villages of District Shaheed Benazir Abad (Nawabshah)
Launched by Sangat Development Foundation (SDF)

Given in growing health problems in rural areas of District Shaheed Benazir

Abad (Nawabshah), mostly resulted in by unsafe water and sanitation problems,
Sangat Development Foundation (SDF) being a responsible community based
organisation has launched
community health education
programme especially on safe
drinking water and Community
Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in
rural remote and backward areas
of district Shaheed Benazir Bhutto
(Nawabshah).

Sangat team visited a number of

rural villages in order to spread
Health Education and Awareness
on importance of safe drinking water and sanitation, with a view to cope with
growing chronic diseases mostly born out of unsafe drinking water and hygienic
conditions in the houses and it's surrounding.

The health team of Sangat Development Foundation (SDF) convinced the rural
community to adopt better hygiene practices to construct latrines in order to
keep themselves and their child community safe from curable diseases.

“If we had known that unsafe water was harmful for our health and health of
our children and causing diarrhoea
and respiratory disease – we would
not be drinking it.” Comments a
villager

He further proposed that there is

direly need to spread this message
house to house to educate especially
women community who could be
effective change agents in the society
for building a healthy nation. It is very
difficult to change old habits of the
people in one or two meetings; it needs sustained efforts to convince the common

Community Led Total Sanitation Campaign in Rural Villages of District Shaheed

Benazir Abad
masses to carry out self-initiatives for safe drinking water and sanitation in order
to make themselves especially their coming generations safe and healthy from
deadly diseases.

It has been observed that most rural areas/villages lacking facilities of safe
drinking water, which has resulted in many water born diseases i.e diarrhea in
children of the rural areas, but lack of sanitation awareness has also played
havoc with the health of the rural community.

It has also been noticed that open defecation is the main cause of health problems
especially of children in rural villages. They used to practicing open defecation,
which is causing many diseases in children. Latrine system still has not been
developed in rural villages; even in some rural villages it is a new very concept
for them.

There is dire need to be launched campaign in rural schools because children and
youth are more recipients of sanitation message than the old age people. The
children and youth could play an effective role in promoting hygiene conditions
in rural areas.

No doubt children is vulnerable segment of any society, which need care and
look after in their early ages of life, but especially in our rural areas, the child
community is not given even due attention, it may be of their socio-psychological
development and health.

Poor sanitation also

highly contributes in
developing diarrheal
diseases, which
ultimately to be the cause
of child mortality.
Improved hygiene
conditions will save lives
and help child survival
and environmental sustainability. Therefore, sustained efforts need to be
undertaken for educating rural community on importance of safe drinking water
and Community Led Total Sanitation, not merely to control the curable diseases
in child community but also to have better environment for over all health of our
community.

Community Led Total Sanitation Campaign in Rural Villages of District Shaheed

Benazir Abad
It is great pleasure to share that due to Health Education Campaign by Sangat
Development Foundation, the local community of the area has started
developing latrines in their respective villages in order to stop not only open
defecation but keeping their families safe from deadly diseases. This campaign
needs support to make community of the area very safe and sound from all
deadly diseases.

Community Led Total Sanitation Campaign in Rural Villages of District Shaheed

Benazir Abad