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At a daylong workshop on community sanitation in Patna, Bihar, India, organised by the Public Hea
The winners of the Searchfor the Obvious competition that challenged people to use your creativity to raise awareness about the lack of basic sanitation in the developing world have now been selected!
A recent World Bank study shows that Nigeria loses 20% of its GDP as a result of inadequate sanitation. However, there is hope that this will change as many communities adopt CLTS and stop open defecation.
Almost 30 million people in Afghanistan, that is 92% of the population, lack proper sanitation. In order to address this dire situation, USAID, together with the Afghan government, are implementing CLTS in six of the country’s provinces.
A local Non-Governmental Organization, Development Initiative Programme (DIP), in collaboration with UNICEF and the government of Sierra Leone, celebrated successful CLTS activities in Port Loko district with a five day programme!
The Kashmir Charitable Trust plans to eradicate open defecation in around 20 sites in Muzaffarabad through through School Led Total Sanitation (SLTS), combining the Child to Child (CTC) and Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) strategies. In this earthquake-affected area teachers have already received training in CTC approaches and children are more or less familiar with hygiene issues.