Challenges
- Children studying in rural and semi-urban schools do not have access to safe drinking water. In many cases, school do not get any water supply.
- Another thing that is missing in rural areas is toilets or clean toilets. Children do not have any other option than defecating in open areas. They get used to this practice and follow it for years to come.
- Children are more vulnerable to malnutrition and diseases.
- Open defecation and lack of cleanliness is a growing concern as it creates a breeding ground for numerous diseases.
- Poor sanitation spread diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid and polio
- Open defecation creates a vicious cycle of never ending disease and poverty.
- Most of the kids in rural areas don’t have proper or clean clothes to wear.
- Lack of knowledge about various vaccinations that are essential for human body.
- Lifelong disabilities and diseases due to lack of vaccination.
- 19.5 million Children worldwide do not get basic vaccination.
