Girls Glory - Improve Menstrual Health in India

It's that time of the year when we look back to the last whole year and celebrate the good times as well as work on improving our approaches the coming year. With ‘your’ support we have reached to 2962 Girls and 400 Boys over the last year. We were able to build 51 New Toilets and Renovate 35 Toilets and reach to 28 Government Schools across India. Few more are under construction right now. We were also able to conduct 34 Awareness workshops.

Challenges that we faced!

There were lot of challenges we came across the most glaring one was the crisis of maintenance. In the beginning of the year we were focused on building toilets but later we were awakened to the new issue i.e. of maintenance. So from mid of the year we tried various ways to tackle this issue and finally now be believe we have almost have a fool proof plan. 

Reaching Hand now not only builds toilet but also vouches for the maintenance. One of the biggest breakthroughs came when we started involving the beneficiaries as well as all the stakeholders in maintenance. We conducted awareness programs and made committees to ensure cleanliness. 

Achievements!

• The TCS Marathon fundraiser was a huge success as we were able to share our cause with 1000's of people.
• We were able to create our own and good syllabus for health and hygiene and puberty workshops with the help of volunteers.
• We could strategize maintenance of toilets.
• We could empower the teachers and School Management along with students about the importance of toilets.

In the coming year!

• We will be doing awareness campaigns in the slums in Bangalore along with full-fledged health camps.
• Research on eco-toilets and its sustainability.
• We will be reaching out to 50 more schools across India
• Empower all the Schools about health and hygiene.
• Release the Workshop material officially as tried and tested.
• Work on stronger materials to fit inside the toilets as the children or the community tend to break during the after school hours.

Thanks to you for all the progress we could make. We are also thankful to Global Giving UK for the funds they have donated to Reaching Hand for scaling up our projects. We want to scale up our project to the whole of India. Do give us your feedback and suggestions so that we can improve our project. Do continue supporting us and also visit us if you come down to India.

Thanks a ton again.!!!! Few photos have been attached below portraying the accomplishments. Do look into it.

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