Looking into Rural Interventions regarding Sanitation

Most of the activities regarding our sanitation efforts have been focused mainly in urban areas for people who have insufficient sanitation facilities or lack of sanitation facilities. These range from workers in construction sites to urban poor living in informal settlements in cities whose number is growing larger every year with increase in urban development, migration of people looking for employment opportunities and other factors.

However, what about rural areas? Don't they need access to sufficient sanitation facilities and services? In India, there are several actors whose focus has been and continues to be providing sanitation in rural areas. However, our main reluctance in getting involved in such ventures has largely been due to the lack of proper infrastructure in such areas that would highly affect our activities mainly evacuation of the waste and accessibility of disposal sites which are few and far in rural areas.

With this challenge in mind, we are exploring ways in which we can address them and have a sustainable rural sanitation model put in place and in this regard we are scouting for areas where we can develop and implement such a model because for total sanitation in India, everybody needs to get involved.

This blog is one in a series that documents the journey of Saraplast in setting up an inclusive slum sanitation venture.