BUILDING INTEGRATED SANITATION UNITS ODISHA

Location – Mankapalli and Similisahi villages, Odisha

Beneficiaries - 229 households

 

Villages having seasonal water shortages and source-level drinking water shortages are often faced with improper sanitation and inadequate nutritional intake practices. Parivartan brought in the Integrated WASH approach, that filled the gap, thus ensuring the proper utilisation of sanitation units. The WASH hardware or a sanitation unit not restricted to just a functional toilet but was also attached to a bathroom for bathing. The unit also was well connected with a potable water supply.

The programme created awareness on better hygiene and health practices that the villagers

could adopt in terms of waste management, personal and domestic cleanliness, food safety, kitchen sanitation, etc. The project has covered over 229 households across Mankapalli and Similisahi villages.

REDUCING THE IMPACT OF DRY WASTE ON THE ENVIRONMENT

Location – Delhi

Beneficiaries – 2500 safai sathis

 

India generates more than 65 million tonnes of waste every day. While this waste contaminates the environment, waste pickers who earn a living from it practically earn little to nothing, especially the women. To prevent the environmental and health issues created by improper waste disposal, our Bank partnered with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India for Dry Waste Management. Through this initiative, we aim to create an ecosystem that meets the 5R’s of Waste Management – Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose and Recycle. The project, in alignment with the Government of India’s new Solid Waste Management Rules 2016 and Swachh Bharat Mission, aims to achieve its objectives by institutionalising the waste pickers or the Safai Sathis through social and

financial inclusion.

 

The project has been carried out in five locations and has economically empowered over 2,500 Safai Sathis.

Uttarakhand Floods of 2013

During the disastrous floods in June 2013, Kedarnath district in Uttarakhand was one of the worst affected. Multiple landslides resulted in mass casualties, loss of private and public assets and damage to infrastructure. Several villages were cut-off due to damage to routes. HDFC Bank in partnership with HelpAge India, set up a primary healthcare centre(PHC) at Phata village on main Kedarnath route in Rudraprayag. The PHC served 50 nearby villages with an approximate population of 75,000. The villagers were able to avail the services of specialist doctors, diagnostic facilities. In addition to the PHC, Mobile Health Service were made available in the nearby villages. Close to 50,000 villagers were treated through the centre in the three year period of the centre.