Project PANI - Clean Water & Sanitation for Tribal Villages

This initiative provides rooftop water harvesting, sanitation facilities & a solar energy system to 120 students in one school & 2 hand-pumps & toilets to 100 families in two adjoining villages. Students become ECO Club members & help promote a better understanding of water, sanitation, hygiene & environmental issues within the school. Issues related to health and hygiene are also addressed with villagers formed into Committees which are trained to ensure ongoing maintenance of village hand-pumps & toilets.

DID YOU KNOW THAT...

• Almost 60 million people in rural India lack access to safe water to drink or cook with.

• 72% of rural households lack access to adequate sanitation.

• Over half of rural India’s 870 million people still practice open defecation.

• 21% of all diseases and deaths in India result from unclean water.

We’re working hard to change that…. Through our Project PANI we build the capacity of Tribal villagers to provide better access to safe water and sanitation facilities in the Chandaka Forest Area of Odisha.

Please click here to download the full Project PANI handout.