Sanitation facility In Villages 

In rural area yet people are not having household toilet facility because of which they have to go in open for defecation. Open defecation causes number of problem related to health, social, and so on. According to the study of Brian Arbogast, Director of the water sanitation and hygiene programme at the Bill and Melinda gates foundation “in India every year, 200,000 infants die because of open defecation, Open defecation leads to contamination of food and water and transmits diarrhea-related diseases. In addition it can cause mental and cognitive stunting to young children”. Doctors have identified several other diseases like, skin disease, scabies, and intestinal parasites resulting in kidney damage, anthrax and tuberculosis.

MGVS has understood the importance of having household toilet and therefore started working in this field in several villages of Aurangabad by identifying the needy people of the village community.

The following are the benefits which the villages are getting from this programme.

1.      Fall in diseases cases in the programme implementing area.
2.     Improvement in women’s safety and safeguard of their dignity.
3.     Clean and hygienic environment in surroundings of the village

Marathwada Gramin Vikas Sanstha is working in rural water and Sanitation project as support and technical agency, sanitation and pure water is life! MGVS has created awareness about practices to keep water pure, safe, importance of sanitation and hygiene has been created among the rural poor in 24 village of Aurangabad Nasik and Ahmednagar District.

Rural water supplies and sanitation Committee, Social Audit Committee and Women Development committees are initiated in partnership with Gram Sabha. These community level committees are being capacity built by MGVS and they participate in every stage of project cycle such as planning, monitoring, decision making, evaluation and project implementing.