VILLAGE WELL-BEING
Project Water Is Life offers a comprehensive community-driven village well-being program
The key to repeatable success is to inspire and educate villagers at the grass-roots level, and to facilitate building a sustainable and scalable model, using modern tools and techniques, in concert with colloquial village wisdom. Adding value wins the support and endorsement of villagers, which in turn leads to their commitment to make the village a better place to live.
SUICIDES BY FARMERS
80% of villagers depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Availability of water has a direct bearing on the crop yield as well as the farmer earnings. In the absence of incomes, farmers are unable to pay-off their loans and commit suicide leaving behind scores of widows and orphaned children.
About 46 farmers commit suicide in a day.
SANITATION AND HYGIENE
Even in today’s day and age, most village households do not have access to toilets and defecate in the open. Contamination of available water resources due to open defecation causes many water-borne diseases and subsequent deaths.
One in 3 women faces trouble in accessing safe toilet facilities.
23% girls dropout of school when they reach puberty due to lack of or unhygienic toilet facilities
Our team is dedicated to address the major challenges faced by rural India. Projects already kicked-off
will impact 100,000+ households.
Examples of village well-being projects include (not limited too):
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Building Toilets
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Sanitation and Hygiene awareness programs
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Tree Plantation
Soak pit is a covered, porous-walled chamber that allows water to slowly soak into the ground
Trees and forests play an incredible role in reducing storm water in several ways and removing or filtering pollutants that would otherwise wind up in our waterways.