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z Water and Sanitation | ||
| v Toilets Construction | |||
| v Individual Water Connections | |||
| v Health Education | |||
Approximately 50% of people living in big Indian
cities, like Hyderabad, live in slums in conditions which we can't
even imagine. On an average six to seven people live in a 12 x
10 foot one room house with tin or cardboard comprising 4 walls
and a roof, with no sanitation facilities anywhere so that human
waste litters the street and flows down little streamlets in front
of the small houses and the hundred other houses in the densely
packed urban slums of Hyderabad.
The slums here have huge garbage dumps with people packed together in unhygienic and claustrophobically small spaces/ when the space does not allow the construction of latrines of individual households, or even sufficient number of communicable ones. The slum dwellers are forced to use the outdoors - the roadsides or railway tracks as their bathroom/ fecal matter lying around and overflowing drains crisscrossing the slums become happy breeding grounds of all sorts of diseases. On many occasions the drains leak into the water supply resulting in outbreak of epidemics. SIDUR took up water sanitation in 10 slums in Hyderabad. Our Objectives Capacity Building: Build capacity of local communities particularly women and motivate them to participate fully in the implementation of the project. Women's empowerment through savings and credit programs through Self Help Groups and their involvement in decision-making processes. People's participation in decision making and community self governance. |
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Bring together complementary expertise in water and sanitation
