1.33 lakh families on shoals achieve hygienic sanitation
Over 1.33 lakh char (shoal) households have achieved hygienic sanitation and pure drinking water facilities to improve their health status reducing water-borne diseases in the remote char areas of 10 northwestern districts.
The success has been achieved by the extremely poor families with assistance of the comprehensive chars livelihoods programme (CLP) in the hardly reachable riverine char islands on the Brahmaputra basin since 2004.
As a result of achieving sanitation and pure drinking water facilities, health index of the char people, who already won over extreme poverty with the CLP assistance, has marked a significant improvement with reduction in the neonatal, maternal and child deaths.
Under the programme, 1.33 lakh targeted extremely poor households in Kurigram, Bogra, Gaibandha, Sirajganj, Jamalpur, Lalmonirhat, Nilphamari, Rangpur, Pabna and Tangail are enjoying sanitation and pure drinking water facilities now.
The UKAid through the Department for International Development, the Australian government through the Australian Agency for International Development, and the Bangladesh government are funding the CLP's implementation.
Livelihoods Coordinator of CLP Dr Mahbub Alam told the news agency that the multi-dimensional CLP activities were being implemented by the local partner NGOs in the riverine char islands to achieve the goals.
Head of Programme Coordination of RDRS Bangladesh, one of the CLP implementing organisations, Monjusree Saha said the char people lacked minimum sanitation facilities even a decade ago basically sheltering sick mothers, kids and a bleak future.
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