Jayanti Kumari : One of the fundamental aspects of a healthy and dignified existence is access to sanitation facilities. Sanitation is not only an essential safeguard against diseases and infections; it also provides a structure for privacy, especially for the women in the household. Before taking the sanitation loan for constructing toilet from us Smt. Jayanti Kumari and her family had no access to private toilets or latrines. So they defecate in the open areas nearby their house. This makes not only the environment polluted and unhygienic but also affects the public health at large. With women and girls often particularly vulnerable to the consequences of poor sanitation services, this borrower was also facing problems while defecating at open fields.
But now she has taken a sanitaion loan of Rs. 25000 and constructed a fully cement structured private toilet. She and her family is using the toilet now without facing any uneasiness and filthiness of open defecation. This loan provided this borrowers family one of the basic need of human life.