No WASH facilities for tea garden residents
Around 57 percent tea garden residents still defecate out in the open, speakers said at a press meeting yesterday. They said this is due to cost-constraints, negligence from tea garden authorities, and lack of space inside households.
The Institute of Development Affairs (IDEA) organised the meeting, titled "Promoting WASH for hard to reach communities including Tea garden workers in Bangladesh" at Sreemangal Press Club in Moulvibazar. It was jointly implemented by WaterAid and supported by SIMAVI.
Under the programme, IDEA surveyed a total of 2,336 households in the area, housed by 11,036 people.
Of them, only 273 have hygienic latrines, 729 household use unhygienic latrines, while 1,334 households have no latrines at all.
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