Tag: human rights
Corrupted Dreams
Pushpa Devi wanted a house. She had dreams of raising her children in a proper house in contrast to a bamboo hut that barely protects them from even the minutest of a hitch. Her dreams took her way from the shadows of a house beyond to the lucidness of a...
Uttar Pradesh Government Forgets Flood Survivors
‘Stories from those who live it’ is tag line that we often use to describe the work of our Community Correspondents. Today’s story is one of those unfortunate tales– nature’s wrath combined with the government’s haphazard plans and those caught in the middle are people, just like you and me,...
Ostracised Again: Leper Colony Demands Sanitation
On a winding walk between rubble and an overflowing drain dotted with plastic that never decomposes, lives Sabita Kaushali in Patia Village’s Leper colony. Forgotten by the rest of the world, the families are forced to live in unsanitary conditions. Patia is not really a village, it is a semi...
The World’s Leading Cause
Lack of sanitation is the world’s leading cause of infection. It is a serious health risk and an affront to human dignity. It affects billions of people around the world, particularly the poor and disadvantaged. If the trend continues as currently projected, by 2015 there will be 2.7 billion people...
Broken Hand-pump & Tired legs
The hand pump in Ward no. 5 of Jairamnagar in Chhattisgarh, which used to provide water to more than 50 families has not been functional for a year. Community Correspondent Vrinda Azad’s friend lives in Jairamnagar. Vrinda has been listening to her trouble’s mounting up every time she meets in...
We Lost our Toilets to Corruption
The Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan or what was once called the ‘Total Sanitation Campaign’ run by the Government of India envisions villages and semi urban areas with “healthy and clean surroundings.” Providing funds for the construction of toilets is one of its major functions. An otherwise great initiative, it has collapsed...