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Low cost toilets for Kharoli

Sankalpa partnered with a dedicated social-worker couple, the Deekshits for this project. Mr. Mukund Deekshit and Mrs. Vasantee Deekshit have been working as a social activist since the last 30 years. They have shaped as activists while working with Dr. Baba Amte and Dr. Parakash Amte, around “Anandvan” and Bhamragad tribal belt, for about 18 years. In those years they worked in varied fields and secured long and rich experience in – non-formal education, health, community organization and social empowerment, and other developmental activities. Since 2002 the Deekshits moves to Nashik (their native place) and have been working towards holistic socio-economic development of Kharoli, a small village in Trimbakeshwar Taluka, Nashik.

While working in Kharoli they have set a few broad objectives to be achieved. They are enlisted below:

  • To empower and help the villagers (mostly tribals) to develop on their own by reorganizing local self-government, participatory decision-making, by awakening and understanding the rights and procedures involved in the poverty reduction programmes, tracing alternative economic activities and reorienting socio-cultural views and attitudes.
  • To develop a model of village development applicable not only to this specific village but for the cluster of nearing 20 villages, in coming 10 years.
Project:

The “Low cost toilets for Kharoli” project is a part of the holistic development of Kharoli village. The proposed project aims at building a multipurpose sanitary (urinals and toilet) system in the village and demonstrating the benefits of these systems to health and agriculture.

In addition, a village-wide campaign to: (i) spread awareness regarding the benefits of using the newly installed sanitary systems, (ii) educate and train villagers on producing bio-manure from human waste, and lastly (iii) propagate sanitary practices in daily living.


Goals and desired outcomes:

  • To make the village free from insanitation; which is practiced in the form of open-air toileting.
  • To produce healthy conditions by reducing the abdominal diseases especially linked with open-air toileting.
  • To produce compost or organic manure at local level by using human waste and enriching agricultural soil by using this manure.

Project Timeline:
  • Project Initiation: May 2004
  • Project Visit: December 2004
  • Project Completion: July 2005

Project related documents (proposals, reports, etc):
Project proposal submitted for funding requests                            [View Proposal]
Project report by Prashant who visited the project site in 2004    [View Report]