WASH Warrior From Trichy Awarded With Padma Shri 2022 For His Work In Sanitation

Updated: March 29, 2022 17:28 IST

From raising awareness about sanitation to helping the poor families in rural areas get access to toilets and safe drinking water, 57-year-old S. Damodaran, Founder, Gramalya has spent over three decades spreading awareness about WASH.

WASH Warrior From Trichy Awarded With Padma Shri 2022 For His Work In Sanitation
S. Damodaran has been conferred the Padma Shri Award 2022 for his work on sanitation in villages and urban slums across South India.
WASH Warrior From Trichy Awarded With Padma Shri 2022 For His Work In Sanitation
He has been working in villages and urban slums across South India for the last 35 years, to end open defecation by building toilets and promoting sanitation and hygiene among people.
WASH Warrior From Trichy Awarded With Padma Shri 2022 For His Work In Sanitation
Mr Damodaran and his organisation developed India's first open defecation-free village in Thandavampatty in Tiruchi in 2003.
WASH Warrior From Trichy Awarded With Padma Shri 2022 For His Work In Sanitation
So far, he along with his organisation have contributed towards making 600 villages and 200 slums free of open defecation in South India.
WASH Warrior From Trichy Awarded With Padma Shri 2022 For His Work In Sanitation
For over a year, Gramalya has been supporting Reckitt's Harpic World Toilet College initiative in South India.
WASH Warrior From Trichy Awarded With Padma Shri 2022 For His Work In Sanitation
Gramalya has been working in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh states as an associate of the Harpic World Toilet College for training 3,000 sanitation workers.
WASH Warrior From Trichy Awarded With Padma Shri 2022 For His Work In Sanitation
For the year 2022-2023, Harpic World Toilet College will be expanding in 3 more states - Telangana, Karnataka and Pondicherry, for upskilling 6,000 sanitation workers along with Gramalya.

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