Girls start self-help groups in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi and Sultanpur districts to address sanitation issues
Combining Self-Help Groups (SHGs) with sanitation programmes is a model that is working well in villages of Amethi and Sultanpur districts of Uttar Pradesh.
While the old concept of SHGs was thrift and economic empowerment of women, the more recent formation of young women’s SHGs has strengthened the movement for toilets and sanitary napkins. An innovative way has been also been found for disposing off the cloth napkins by burning them in earthen pots or matkasand, and scattering the ashes in the fields................Read more
Source: Business Line
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