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The ( Lack Of ) Girls Toilet

 
/ January 22, 2014

The RTE Act mandates that each school must have a separate toilet for girls and boys. Three years after its implementation, there are thousands of schools across India that do not fulfil this requirement. VV-PACS Correspondent Rekha Bhangre reports one such case from Seoni District Madhya Pradesh. The Marzhor Primary...

Sanitation Crisis: Education Going Down The Toilet

 
/ January 22, 2014

Toilets play a crucial role in the proper functioning of the school. VV-PACS Community Correspondent Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal from Maharajganj district of Uttar Pradesh reports on the impact of missing toilet infrastructure in a government primary school in Argampur village. The toilet in the school exists but is in an...

Pipelines of Garbage

 
/ January 9, 2014

  In Lucknow district of Uttar Pradesh, people are getting unhealthy water through broken plastic pipelines and are forced to use this water every day for all the purposes. Just above the plastic pipelines there is a huge garbage pit where all people dump their garbage. The metal pipelines where...

Pushing for Better Maternal Health Facilities

 
/ December 27, 2013

“When I was about deliver my son, I had to hire a private car to take me and bring me back from the hospital. The same situation occurred when my daughter was about to be born. This time I paid Rs.800 for the car. The ambulance didn’t come”, says a...