Project
Enhancing the Urban Poor’s Understanding of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Programme Goal: To increase knowledge about safe water, sanitation and hygiene among the urban poor, especially slum dwellers
Sector Focus: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Status: Completed
Duration:2010-11
Donor: Own funds
Number of beneficiaries 1,000
Working area: Wards 6, 9 and 14 in Khulna City Corporation)
Activities:
- providing training for households, especially women, on hygienic sanitation how best to prepare for childbirth;
- formation of groups among three wards in Khulna; and
- arranging training, seminars, motivational campaigns, rallies, street dramas (‘pot songs’) and leafleting on public health, pure drinking water, sanitation and hygiene.
