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Pakistan – 200 AJK villages to be made open defecation-free by year end

March 13, 2008 · 1 Comment

ISLAMABAD, Mar 13 (APP): About 200 villages in earthquake-hit Muzaffarabad will be made open defecation-free by the end of current year under a pilot project launched by the UNICEF and its partners in the mid 2007.

In the quake-ravaged areas of Azad Kashmir, 14 villages have already been granted open defecation-free status by the UNICEF and its partners in the project.

Situated in the vicinity of Muzaffarabad, Kot Serian village is also one of the villages declared open defecation-free, where all of 53 families have constructed latrines in their homes after the UNICEF and its partner, Society for Sustainable Development (SSD) had started the sensitization of school-children as part of its School-Led Total Sanitation project.

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