National Cadet Corps (NCC) cadets in West Bengal have started a sanitation campaign to educate people in the remote villages of poverty-stricken Purulia district about the use of safe toilets.
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“The cadets have taken up a 6-month programme to make people aware about the use of latrines. Apart from organising workshops and training, cadets will also visit the villages and urge people to install sanitary latrines in the households,” Col Abu Sufian, Associated NCC Officer of 51 Bengal Battalion in Purulia, said.
NCC, in partnership with UNICEF and district administration, has planned […] to build awareness on sanitation and hygiene in Purulia, where only 10 per cent of the households have sanitary latrines [because of alleged lack of administrative push and inability of the poor villagers to pay the beneficiary’s contribution of Rs 320] whereas West Bengal has a record of 76 per cent toilets.
Source: PTI / The Hindu, 19 Oct 2008
More than 2,000 National Cadet Corps youth from five colleges and 14 schools celebrated Global Hand Washing Day with rallies and demonstrations to show the five steps for hand washing in Raghunathpur, Jhalda and Balarampur blocks of Purulia district in West Bengal.
The cadets of Mahatma Gandhi College at Lalpur in Purulia marched the roads of Chakalta village in the district carrying banners, canvassing on microphones and distributing leaflets describing the benefits of hand washing. They demonstrated to members of the community how thoroughly rubbing the whole surface of hands, joints of fingers and the corner of nails with soap is necessary to remove germs after toilet and before eating or cooking.
Source: UNICEF, 15 Oct 2008
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