OUR APPEAL
Water, Access, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in urban slums is worse in terms of availability, accessibility, acceptability, quality, safety, and affordability of water and sanitation. Physical environment, including infrastructural facilities, is lacking in urban slums prevents achieving health for all specially among the children and elderly. Considering the effect of lack of available and accessible WASH facilities and public toilets, the slum dwellers’ lack of knowledge in importance of hygiene practices result in communicable diseases and physical conditions that lead to poverty among the slum communities.
GLRA India initiated a comprehensive WASH model project through multi-faced interventions that aims to provide improved WASH facilities in 5 slums in Agra. The project will involve frontline health workers, elected Civil body members, sanitary workers as stakeholders for a sustainable action besides involving community volunteers, school health clubs and SHGs to demonstrate sanitation practices and the importance of health-seeking behaviour.
