Water & Sanitation Project:

• To ensure use of Safe water and sanitary latrine among the rural poor community CHAHIDA have taken Utahan Boithak, School Programme on Water & Sanitation, Training on Sanitations Slab ring distribution the following activities with assistance of NGO Forum. CHAHIDA has been implementing an innovative approach to promote people led total sanitation in the development areas with technical and financial support from NGO Forum for drinking water supply and sanitation. The Organization believes that many of the health related problems could be mitigated if people get access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation. At present, although govemment trying to establish health care facilities in the rural communities but inadequate facilities and lack of awareness on personal hygiene often affect the rural poor specially women, and children to spread out diseases. Personal and environmental cleanliness, hygienic sanitation and safe drinking water help to get a way-out of the situation.

CHAHIDA believes in people's participation in the planning process of a new intervention, and sensitizes them in implementation and monitoring as it ensures the ownership and provides assurance of success of the intervention. Community led total sanitation is such an intervention where community people take the entire activities to make the program a success. As a part of the action plan CHAHIDA provides support in hardware and software i.e. tube- wells and sanitary and offset pit latrines install, and creating impetus through courtyard meeting, and workshop [seminar to use safe drinking water and follow hygienic behavior. The overall objective of the program is to implement people led and demand driven WATSAN and Hygiene promotion approach in the program areas. For the last four years CHAHIDA has been actively involved with the said process to eliminate water born and fecal diseases from the development areas. With the assistance of NGO Forum and the active involvement of Community people. It has formed VDC (Village Development Center) in the program areas for making rings and slabs for offset pit and water sealed latrines for easy collation and carry in the community. As arsenic is becoming a national concem and CHAHIDA's working areas are severely affected by arsenic. CHAHIDA have keenness to work with this problem to ensure safe water for its members.