WASH Project - a water, sanitation and hygiene project in north India out of Kachhwa Christian Hospital

Needs - £3,000 for each new well and £6,000 for each new tractor.

WASH stands for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, life essentials that we take for granted here in the West. But in parts of south Asia, such as the remote villages of north India, water, sanitation and hygiene are in short supply. 90% of villages in the north India region of Uttar Pradesh have poor access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation. And the cost is heavy. Diseases such as diarrhoea, cholera, malaria and typhoid are commonplace and mortality rates are high.

Interserve and local workers are looking to add life to remote communities by providing clean water. They are doing this by installing new tube wells, restoring existing hand pumps, undertaking chlorination of wells, and running training programmes for the villagers.

Interserve workers, through KCH hospital in that area, are involved in the management of projects that assist in the provision of all the above, as well as the purchase of tractors to aid rubbish disposal - a major cause of infection.

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