Grameen Swapna

3.41 million People die from water, sanitation and hygiene-related causes each year. It is estimated that nearly 10% of the global disease burden could be reduced through improved water supply, sanitation, hygiene, and water resource management. As in many other developing countries, sanitation remains a major challenge in Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, due to lack of awareness and access, only 54 per cent of the population uses hygienic sanitation facilities, while 86 per cent has access to safe drinking water. The low sanitation coverage (33%) in Bangladesh poses a serious public health concern. It is estimated that 71% rural households and 40% urban households practice open defecation or use unhygienic latrines. Diarrhea remains a major killer disease. About 110,000 children under five die of diarrheal disease every year. It is thought that one out of four deaths of under-five children is caused by diarrhea. Over 65 million episodes of diarrheal diseases occur annually among under-five children. The high disease burden translates into high healthcare cost. It is estimated that the people of Bangladesh spend about 100 Million USD annually to cover physician’s fee, medicine and travel cost to clinics in treating the major water-borne diseases. The cost would be much higher if the loss of income, time spent for patient care, and effect on child development are factored in. Diarrheal diseases in Bangladesh cause the loss of 5.7 million Disabilities Adjusted Life Years, 61% of total DALYS. The poor are the hardest hit by the sanitation related diseases. Loss of income and productivity due to the diseases may push a poor family further into poverty and debt, thereby perpetuating the cycle of poverty.

Grameen Swapna dedicated exclusively to the provision of safe domestic water, sanitation and hygiene education to the poorest people. These most basic services are essential to life; without them vulnerable communities are trapped in the stranglehold of disease and poverty. Grameen Swapna setup low-cost latrine, Tube wells projects using appropriate technology that can be managed by the community itself. Grameen Swapna also seeks to influence the policies of other key organizations, such as governments, to secure and protect the right of poor people to safe, affordable water and sanitation services. We have been working on safe water and sanitation program funded by different partner in Bangladesh. We have been also implemented Dig a well, Water well project, Arsenic free safe water & sanitation Project, Water Wells, Improve Water ,Sanitation & hygiene Programme for School children as per need in different parts of Bangladesh. Many studies of the behavioral and health impacts of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) Programm have been carried out It has been emphasized that health benefits are achieved when WASH provisions are used and practiced by the target population Furthermore, it has been stressed that every project should make efforts to become sustainable.

Access to water and sanitation is a fundamental human right and essential to life, health and dignity. Timely and adequate provision of clean water and sanitation services to uprooted people is particularly important given the vulnerability of their situation. They touch every aspect of human activity, from environmental protection to safe drinking water and from empowerment of women and education of girls to the reduction of productivity losses. More than a quarter of all people in the developing world lack access to safe drinking water sources, and more than half lack sanitation facilities (WHO and UNICEF, 2006). Lack of safe drinking water and sanitation has a profound effect on health, especially waterborne or diarrhoeal diseases, which have a significant Impact on children. It is estimated that around waterborne diseases every day (WHO and UNICEF, 2004). In recognition of these facts, the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets. It highlights the fact that the lack of basic sanitation and adequate hygiene knowledge contributes to child mortality, which could be curtailed through behavioural change in hygiene practices such as access to Sanitation and safe water. For example, hand washing alone can reduce mortality by 42%.

The project has designed in such a way that it is achievable, measurable and time-bound. There is logical similarity between project input and output. The project is long-term by nature. The project goals have been achieved in joint collaboration with the beneficiaries, staff and community members. The beneficiaries are getting involved in the project planning as well as in the implementation process directly. Community itself has been encouraged to contribute to implement this project. Management of the existing water supplies by the community. Fulfilling Grameen Swapna commitment to the poor, the programme incorporates sustainable and appropriate services to the poor and hard-core poor, and particularly to women & disadvantage people.

Grameen Swapna Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Program implemented these particular interventions distinguishes six levels of activities, defined by the kind of actor with which the programme is called upon to interact. These are the: