GHCl Digest - JANUARY 2018

Issue 93, February edition
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Convergence of Swachh Bharat and GHCL CSR Intervention
- Ms. Sugandha Rastogi, Asst. Manager-Sustainability, Noida
regular facilitaon of mass awareness generaon drives, street plays, student rallies and many more
IEC acvies. GHCL has gone beyond movaon incenve and have integrated regular mobilizaon
through the meeng, training, workshop, exposure, and mass awareness acvity etc. aiming at overall
coverage of without toilet families in the village.
Since 2012 GHCL Foundaon has expanded their outreach from Gir-Somnath to Bhavnagar, Valsad and
Amreli district. The details can be seen below:
District No. of villages Total Coverage from 2012 to 2017
Gir-Somnath 53 6494
Amreli 18 1576
Bhavnagar 2 514
Valsad 3 137
Total 76 8721
Many challenges such as lack of priority of toilet among the community, lack of space for toilet construcon,
hard rock soil for pit digging, financial crisis for construcon etc. has been overcome to
achieve the coverage. For example, as a soluon to the hard rock problem, GHCL introduced Breaker
machines. Many IEC intervenons has also been carried out to support the sanitaon acvies. GHCL
has spread community awareness by BCC (Behaviour change Communicaon) process. The Programme
focuses on community mobilizaon efforts to induce behavior change. The success of the communica-
on depends upon acceptability and adopon of improved hygiene and sanitaon pracces.
GHCL through all its intervenons intends to bridge the gap between the community and development.
Through such convergence we aim to remove all the boClenecks that were hindering the progress of
achieving the long desired aim of complete sanitaon coverage in India. I advise you all to explore
more details on GHCL intervenons especially contribung to Swachh Bharat and endeavour to make
your contribuon in promong this noble iniave via GHCL foundaon efforts in making our country a
beCer place to live.