Build Green, Hygienic Toilets in Rural India
You can help improve the physical environment of the villages from which many of the PPES students live in. By providing toilets in the student’s home, you can help reinforce the health lessons learned at school. It will also help improve the overall sanitation in the village and decrease many preventable illnesses associated with poor sanitation in the region.
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The Need
In rural India, about 30% of health-related expenditures are spent on preventable diseases, many that could very easily be prevented with improved sanitation. According to the World Bank, human excreta are associated with more than 50 diseases and causes some 80% of the illnesses in India. A toilet may not seem like much to those who have been accustomed to using one since early childhood, but in rural India a toilet protects the owner from the many preventable diseases and shields the owner from the danger and humiliation of outdoor defecation. This is especially important for protecting women who without toilets, have no shelter nor trees behind which to perform bodily functions. Building toilets will not only improve sanitation and community health, but will also impart some dignity into the lives of people who, since the beginning of time, have had to perform bodily functions in the open, for all to see.
About Pardada Pardadi Educational Society (PPES)
Partner since February, 2010
Pardada Pardadi Girls Vocational School is a registered, tax-exempt society in India, the U.S. and the UK that has provided value-based academic and vocational training to impoverished girls in India’s poorest state since 2000. The school started with 45 girls and has grown to almost 1,000 students, K-12. The school's mission is to uplift and empower India’s poorest girls and create a new generation of strong, self-reliant and confidant young women who will break the region’s vicious cycle of poverty. Their enlightened and holistic education program addresses gender disparities, elevates women’s status, provides the academic education and vocational skills necessary for students to secure well-paying jobs and become financially independent, combats childhood marriage, child-trafficking and economic migration and promotes respect and social integration across caste, class and religious lines.
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