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“We do have a washroom in our school. Before that, we used to go somewhere outside the school. Now it is good that we have water in our washroom.” Bilal, 11

Sawaira is happy to wash her hands in the newly installed handwashing facility in her school in Tharparkar.

Muhammad Abdullah, who is an Imam by profession has been working in the mosque of village Jaday wala since 2018. He has been a religious leader of the community and everyone listens to what he says and how he acts. Due to this, He feels it his utmost responsibility to aware 300 households of the community about the importance of water and water conservation.

"I get tired and sometimes feel sick. We built the washroom so that our dignity is saved and it’s now made life easier." Sarwar Mai, 60

Abdul Qadir, estimates he was involved in 75% of the sanitation work in Orangi Town, Karachi.

Bushra attended regular hygiene sessions which were conducted by her schoolteacher, Ms. Nazia who is an active member of WASH Committee in her village formed by WaterAid. When Bushra got the information of good hygiene practices, she became a role model not only at her school but for her family and community in raising awareness and guiding the others for the basic hygiene practices. She is still an active participant of these trainings now. *A water filtration plant is setup in this community, but the post testing of the plant needs to carry out therefore its not operational formally.

“They called me in for a training. And in that training, I understood how a business should be run. The training was for three days, but it was equal to learning for three years."