A map of the entire village stating the number of houses, number of males and females, number of houses that have built toilets. This map outside the school wall has played a pivotal role in ensuring all houses build toilets.
Women have been chosen to spearhead the sanitation revolution in rural Tamilnadu. The organizations working to promote sanitation in the region (in this case Leaf Society, Namakkal) recruit motivated women to work as Water and Sanitation Promoters in the villages they live in to spread the word about sanitation and personal hygiene.
Several programmes have been undertaken by Swades Foundation to make education more effective and comprehensive in villages where they operate (Photo Courtesy: Swades Foundation)
Overall it was an enlightening experience for the children at the school as well as the Nirmal Bharat Yatra team as they learnt from each other. (Photo: Aneesha Menon)
Around 5,000 women belonging to 350 SHGs, organised under two federations, 'Jhalda Nari Shakti Mahila Sangh' and 'Sabuj Sathi Nari Shakti Sangh', came together recently for a 'mahaadhiveshan', or mass meeting, held in the Barrabazar and Jhalda blocks of Purulia. (Credit: Jayanta Pal\WFS)
