THE BONDHON PROJECT
BONDHON LATRINE and TUBEWELL PROJECT
Bangladesh’s lack of access to adequate clean water and sanitation affects both rural and urban areas. Latrine availability is very poor, averaging only 16% in the rural areas. Diarrheal diseases constitute a major health problem in Bangladesh, killing over 100,000 children each year. Thousands of episodes of diarrhoea occur in children and adults each day. Diarrheal diseases have close biological and socio-economic links to the problems of malnutrition, poor maternal health, infant mortality, and child survival.
Help us to raise £4,000 to provide Tubewells and Latrines for the 23,000 villagers in and around Muradpur who desperately need clean water.
IF YOU FEEL ABLE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WORK OF THE PROJECT, PLEASE CONTACT THE LOCAL ORGANISER HERE.
Bangladesh
Capital city: Dhaka
Population of 166 million
27.9 million lack safe water
74.8 million do not have adequate sanitation facilities
Infant mortality rate of 4.5%
31.5% live in poverty
Empowered women will change the world
In many countries, women are responsible for finding and fetching water for their families. All the water they need for drinking, washing, cooking, cleaning. They walk miles, carry heavy burdens, wait for hours and pay exorbitant prices. The work is back-breaking and all-consuming. Often the water is contaminated, even deadly. In these instances, they face an impossible choice – certain death without water or possible death from illness.
Once they are old enough, girls join this effort. They spend countless hours trying to provide this basic life necessity.
Women also struggle most from the lack of adequate sanitation, the often unspoken part of the water and sanitation crisis. The sanitation crisis for women can be summed up in one word: ‘dignity.’ Around the world, fewer than one person in three has access to a toilet. In many countries, it is not acceptable for a woman to relieve herself during the day. They wait hours for nightfall, just to have privacy. This impacts on health and puts their safety at risk. About half of all girls worldwide attend schools without toilets. The lack of privacy causes many girls to drop out when they reach puberty.
The dual aspects of the water crisis – lack of water and of sanitation – lock women in a cycle of poverty. They cannot attend school; they cannot earn an income.
THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF PROVIDING TUBEWELLS and LATRINES IN MURADPUR, BANGLADESH
· Improved health for women and girls who no longer have to delay defecation and urination.
· Reduced child and maternal mortality as a result of access to safe water, sanitation facilities and improved hygiene during child birth.
· Increased dignity and reduced psychological stress for girls and women particularly when symptoms associated with menstruation, pregnancy and childbirth can be managed discreetly.
· Reduced physical injury from constant lifting and carrying heavy loads of water.
· Reduced risk of rape, sexual assault, and increased safety as women and girls do not have to go to remote and dangerous places to defecate or to fetch water during the night.
Bangladesh’s lack of access to adequate clean water and sanitation affects both rural and urban areas. Latrine availability is very poor, averaging only 16% in the rural areas. Diarrheal diseases constitute a major health problem in Bangladesh, killing over 100,000 children each year. Thousands of episodes of diarrhoea occur in children and adults each day. Diarrheal diseases have close biological and socio-economic links to the problems of malnutrition, poor maternal health, infant mortality, and child survival.
Help us to raise £4,000 to provide Tubewells and Latrines for the 23,000 villagers in and around Muradpur who desperately need clean water.
IF YOU FEEL ABLE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WORK OF THE PROJECT, PLEASE CONTACT THE LOCAL ORGANISER HERE.
Bangladesh
Capital city: Dhaka
Population of 166 million
27.9 million lack safe water
74.8 million do not have adequate sanitation facilities
Infant mortality rate of 4.5%
31.5% live in poverty
Empowered women will change the world
In many countries, women are responsible for finding and fetching water for their families. All the water they need for drinking, washing, cooking, cleaning. They walk miles, carry heavy burdens, wait for hours and pay exorbitant prices. The work is back-breaking and all-consuming. Often the water is contaminated, even deadly. In these instances, they face an impossible choice – certain death without water or possible death from illness.
Once they are old enough, girls join this effort. They spend countless hours trying to provide this basic life necessity.
Women also struggle most from the lack of adequate sanitation, the often unspoken part of the water and sanitation crisis. The sanitation crisis for women can be summed up in one word: ‘dignity.’ Around the world, fewer than one person in three has access to a toilet. In many countries, it is not acceptable for a woman to relieve herself during the day. They wait hours for nightfall, just to have privacy. This impacts on health and puts their safety at risk. About half of all girls worldwide attend schools without toilets. The lack of privacy causes many girls to drop out when they reach puberty.
The dual aspects of the water crisis – lack of water and of sanitation – lock women in a cycle of poverty. They cannot attend school; they cannot earn an income.
THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF PROVIDING TUBEWELLS and LATRINES IN MURADPUR, BANGLADESH
· Improved health for women and girls who no longer have to delay defecation and urination.
· Reduced child and maternal mortality as a result of access to safe water, sanitation facilities and improved hygiene during child birth.
· Increased dignity and reduced psychological stress for girls and women particularly when symptoms associated with menstruation, pregnancy and childbirth can be managed discreetly.
· Reduced physical injury from constant lifting and carrying heavy loads of water.
· Reduced risk of rape, sexual assault, and increased safety as women and girls do not have to go to remote and dangerous places to defecate or to fetch water during the night.
