Village life - meet the people who made our stories - Amrod village

Amrod, Sehore

 

Amarsingh Viswakarma

This is Amarsingh Vishwakarma, he is 65 years old and has been instrumental in getting the village to build latrines for each household. The village has 84 households with a population of around 750 which depends on agriculture for income.

He told us that he was fearful for his wife's safety as there had been attacks on a females in a nearby villages, these attacks we were told are rife. The village had no toilets and people walked 2 or 3km to get to somewhere to go to the toilet and this would often be by a road. They walk such distances because they do not defecate in the village and often the landowners that own the field around them which they farm will not allow them to defecate in the fields. The village has had support for the cost of the materials but they have provided all the labour. Before WaterAid and the local organisation Samarthan got involved the villagers thought it would be too expensive the build latrines but with some support and assistance the village will open defecation free by the end of this month (February 2013)



Me helping to finish Amarsingh's pit latrines



Example of the finished article