What is sulabh international and how have they tackled the problem of environment sanitation
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Sulabh International. Sulabh International is an India-based social service organization that works to promote human rights, environmental sanitation, non-conventional sources of energy, waste management and social reforms through education.Scavengers, a class of people united in their suffocating misery, were traditionally ordained in Indian society to clean and carry human waste, even those whose excreta they carry on their heads hate scavengers! Reduced to the depths of degradation, as untouchables, and forced to lead a sub-human existence, they were the worst victims of a cruel social order.
It is a common sight to see scavengers, mostly women, moving with excreta on the head, stored in bamboo-baskets, or in leaking drums, with the muck trickling down over face and body. Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak strategy for liberation of Balmikis through the Sulabh movement consists of a mixed package of technology, rehabilitation, with alternative employment and social reform.
The Sulabh approach to restore human dignity to Balmikis has five distinct stages:
a. Liberation;
b. Rehabilitation;
c. Vocational training;
d. Proper education of next generation; and,
e. Social elevation
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fulfil Mahatma Gandhi's unfinished task to restore human rights and dignity to the untouchables, while providing affordable sanitation facilities to masses through out the country. Its vision is to create a healthy and hygienic India, free from the practice of open defecation and faecal pollution of environment.