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OF
HOPE

Improving community health outcomes

through targeted WaSH interventions

Ever since she can remember or at least since she began to live Government of Gujarat, to ensure tap connectivity at each
in the small hamlet of Bamniya Faliya in Gujarat after her household. To achieve this, a new borewell was installed in 2018, and

marriage, 42-year-old Champaben has been making a daily e orts made to ensure regular water supply through a stable
arduous trek to the nearby rivulet to fetch water. A trek that electricity connection.
would often go waste as the rivulet dried up quickly during the
Further progress was made in last year, thanks to solarisation of
long and hot summer months.
the water connection and community-centred e orts made by
Poor access to safe and clean drinking water is a challenge that the village’s Pani Samiti members, including the installation of
many communities living in the remotest parts of India, including chlorination units to ensure a safe water supply. The Trusts’ and

tribal hamlets like Bamniya Faliya, face on a regular basis. Even as CInI’s e orts have ensured access to water supply, besides
millions of people continue to face this challenge, the problem is construction of toilets for each household in Bamniya Faliya.
only further exacerbated by a lack of toilets and abysmal Further, the Menstrual Hygiene Management
sanitation, which is not only a serious quality of life issue but also intervention in the village is building awareness
has serious health implications for the vast population impacted about safe and hygienic management of
by this deficit. menstruation, focusing not only on women and
adolescent girls, but also, on adolescent boys,
For women like Champaben and other residents of
as well as men in the hamlet.
Bamniya Faliya, the irony of nursing aspirations to
have a running supply of drinking water-something that a lot
of us take for granted-is not lost. Tata Trusts, through its
associate organisation Collectives for Integrated Champaben no longer needs to trek for
Livelihood Initiatives (CInI), has been working to transform miles to fetch water every day
the lives of tribal households in the central India

tribal belt through targeted interventions.

Clnl’s drinking water and sanitation intervention commenced
in the village in 2015-16 through a collaboration with the
Water and Sanitation Management Organisation (WASMO),

CLEAN WATER
6 AND SANITATION
PROJECT ALIGNS WITH SDG

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