In New Delhi and many rural areas without proper sanitation, school dropout rates have been highest among girls in substantial part due to restrictions on where they can pee. While boys may relieve themselves where and when they like, girls are constrained by ancient religious and cultural strictures that require that they hold it until they can find someplace suitably secluded. To address this problem, the Aga Khan Foundation and others have installed new toilet blocks at a rural school – and now fifteen of the girls there are going on to higher education.
via The road to civilization leads through the sewer | Ann Alexander’s Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC.
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