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Community Awareness Campaign
Community Awareness Dialogue On Safe Drinking Water and
Sanitation With Villagers of Jan Muhammad Khan
UC Jhoro Shar Taluka Daur,,
A community dialogue on safe drinking water and sanitation was
held withvillagers of Jan Muhammad Khan in Union Council (UC) Jhoro
Shar in order toaware the local community on the importance of
safer drinking water andsanitation and its co-relationship with
community health. Sangat team first
invited thecommunity
members to sharetheir water relatedfacilities andproblems in
theirvillages andadjoining areas.
The villagers saidthey are confrontingwith many socio-economic
and otherdevelopment issuesbut safe drinkingwater and
sanitation
are the main issuesof the village. They further do also confess
that they have never given soimportance to the issues of safe
drinking water and sanitation in their villagesand were even not so
aware that their health problems are directly linked withtheir
proper and safe drinking water and sanitation in their
villages.
They complained that deadly diseases such as hepatitis, cholera,
malaria anddiarrhea are being rapidly spreading not only in their
village but also there are alot of complaints from other poor
communities of the villages of surroundingareas and even over all
union council Jhoro Shar of Taluka Daur DistrictNawabshah. The
villagers have a more complain regarding diarrheal
diseasesfrequently occurring in the village, which has badly
affected especially thevulnerable groups i.e. children and women
community of the village. Even livingin the 21st century, majority
of people fetching water from the open ponds forusing in their food
preparation and drinking purposes, which happened mostlypolluted
and full of contamination. Using of unfiltered and contaminated
waterhas developed serious health problems in the community of the
area.
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While talking on the occasion, President of Sangat Development
Foundation,Nisar A. Brohi said health is wealth for every one being
an individual,
community, or nation,therefore, developednations have given
toppriority to the healthof their communitiesor nation. If
acommunity or nationwould not be healthy,cannot have aprogress
anddevelopment in anyfield of life. Health isthe first and
foremost
priority to have asustainable socio-economic development of any
society.
However, it is great dilemma of our nation that even entered in
the 21 st century,majority of our population drinking unsafe and
contaminated water and alsoliving in unhygienic conditions, which
has direly affected on their working skillsand capacities.
He further appealed to the community they should come forward
for thesolution of their problems facing since many decades. Until
and unlesscommunity it self would not get involved themselves in
the decision-making andimplementation process, the problems remain
unsolved. So, communityinvolvement in any development process would
not only pave the way for thesolution of the problems at grass rot
level but also ensure their sustainability.
In the meeting the community was fully sensitized regarding
their village levelproblems and their possible solutions,
especially formation of Village BasedHealth Committee which would
chalk out strategy to collectively make allpossible efforts in
addressing the health related issues confronting by thevillagers
and would also coordinate with local UC Nazim and EDO Health
District Nawabshah for early possible solution especially for
the provision of safedrink water to the villagers.
The sanitation and hygienic issues was also discussed with
villagers and thecommunity was made aware to keep their houses and
other residentialsurrounding areas clean which is the only possible
way to keep safe themselvesespecially their children from deadly
diseases and keeping death at bay. Becauseunhygienic conditions are
best sanctuaries for various germs and bacterias, if
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transmitted in the human body, would a fatal attack on human
being. So, it isnecessary to keep their environment and especially
of house safe from allunhygienic conditions
Fish swim, birds fly, and people feel.
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