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#Mere10Guz Clean-up Drive Stories: Shortlisted Entries
Sep 25, 2016 03:17 (IST)
Seema Verma, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands
"I am writing to you as I would like to use your platform to share our story which is a small step in the Swachh Bharat campaign that our country is spearheading. We are the Naval Wives Welfare Association(NWWA), an organisation that brings together all the wives of the navy defence personnel, spread out all over the country and aim to help the naval community and all the lives our community touches, in day to day lives. I am writing to you as the ex-President of the Vishakhapatnam chapter of NWWA, and wife of the chairman of the school. We constructed state-of-the-art toilets for girls in our Naval Children School (NCS) in Visakhapatnam as a pilot project. Constructing these toilets was but a small part of our project. Our major focus was teaching toilet etiquettes and imbibing healthy toilet manners/habits amongst the students. This is why we believe our story is worth sharing, because by investing in teaching students and children, we are endeavouring to bring healthy toilet habits in homes and families, ensuring swachh bharat is a sustainable vision. Just to give you a brief overview of the project, we addressed clean toilets from four aspect

1. Quality construction - easily maintainable materials, with adequate water depending on the number of users, proper slopes and drainage and other technical requirements.

2. User training - conducting workshops , streaming of continuous video tutorials in toilets, group talks etc.

3. Training the cleaners - conducting workshops, followed by monthly refreshers on how to clean, what cleaning agents to use and a daily, weekly, monthly, six monthly cleaning schedule.

4. Providing equipment and tools to users and cleaners - we provide students with tissue paper, liquid soap, running water, back-up stored water incase of emergency , mops, sanitary napkin dispenser and sanitary napkin incinerators at ₹2 per day charged monthly.

We also provide the cleaners adequate equipment, personal clothing, and required cleaning agents to maintain clean toilets. Our project has been up and running for 6 months. We now intend to implement the same in our naval school in Port Blair. We would be glad to share our story with others, and hope your platform with its reach and impact gives us this opportunity." 

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