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Boston woman who builds toilets in Uttar Pradesh

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prasad1

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NEW DELHI: India draws epithets mostly of two kinds from foreigners. Indophiles call it 'exotic' for its rich multi-culturalism, mysticism, spirituality and other cliched reasons. Yet, others scathingly dub it as a 'dump' for its egregious lack of sanitation, infrastructure and development. Some go as far as calling India a 'shithole' 'drowning in its own excreta'.

But an American Ph.D student Marta Vanduzer-Snow (34) moved to rural India three years ago thinking that India needed a different approach altogether—"To be an invisible human who makes a difference on the ground."

The result—Marta, a Rutgers University scholar who grew up in Boston, got 82 low-cost evapotranspiration toilets in homes and 1 in a primary school and 10 feet wide 122 meters permeable roads constructed, all at half or one-third the cost of similar governmental projects in the villages of Rai Bareli and Amethi in Uttar Pradesh.

Each government toilet, built under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan that aims to eliminate open defecation by Mahatma Gandhi's 150th anniversary in October 2019, costs about Rs.17000, but the evapotranspiration toilet that Marta has brought to the villages costs only Rs. 9109. As against government's Rs. 4 lakh per 100 meter of interlocking road, Marta's 100 meter permeable road costs only Rs. 2 lakh.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ts-in-Uttar-Pradesh/articleshow/47748789.cms?
 
Many of us were under privileged and have become privileged due to subsidised education and high paying jobs due to opening of indian economy.

perhaps we can also think of giving back something to society.

Marta who is not an indian is working in india to make a difference to lives of people in rural areas.

Why not some of us do the same?
 
we can also think of giving back something to society.


Thinking does not help to improve the condition of society.

We have enough people to think and to give sage advice.

Need of the hour is only 'action'. Not people who 'think' at the fag of their life.Lol
 
prasadji
I did see it .
I sent a personal mail to you to your email address.
Thanks for being so considerate.
I chose here your thread only to do my first post after a few months.
This cool off period was a must for me.
I spent my time putting my match making skills to test and was busy getting two of my relatives in my extended family married off.lol
 
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