Community hygiene helps prevent infectious diseases from spreading throughout the neighborhood. Hygiene practiced regularly creates healthier communities. On a more global scale, community hygiene helps save lives of everyone by decreasing the spread of dangerous diseases such as diarrhea.
The primary cause of diarrhea is unsafe water and a lack of
basic sanitation and hygiene.
In addition, being the 21st century many societies do not have
access to toilets; people are using the bathroom outside in the open. This
creates a dangerous environment, especially for children, who are often playing
on the ground in these areas.
In places where people walk, pathogens causing diarrhea and
other illnesses pass along feet and hands and eventually to food and mouths.
This is where HOPE – A Health NGO in Pakistan
constructed a Toilet Located at Allah Dinno Mollah Goth, Sujawal. This toilet,
benefits almost 50-60 houses in the vicinity, causing them great ease and
solving their basic washroom problems.
Villagers claim these toilets
have solved many problems. Alongside these there are also many handpumps
installed by HOPE – An NGO in
Pakistan, where villagers are provided with clean, pure water. These
toilets are constructed on a 5x5 sq foot.
Community hygiene combined with
safe water and proper disposal of waste saves lives. Not only does community
and environmental hygiene help protect young children, it reduces illness for
everyone. Families are healthy and more productive. Children spend more time in
school rather than recovering from illness.
Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla – A Child Specialist in Karachi, ensures that there are
toilets and handpumps in all communities where HOPE has reached out to. So that
people have easy access to clean drinking water and sanitation.
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