HEALTH EDUCATION AND SANITATION

CSSR has been encouraging the rural public living in Dindigul & Coimbatore District,Tamilnadu,to adopt new strategies and projects to protected water, hygiene and sanitation and improving their access to safe and sufficient drinking water ,Hygiene living condition and sanitation facilities water and sanitation committees (WASAN) were formed at village level and they helped to raise kitchen gardens utilizing the wastewater. Individual families were also motivated and assisted to raise kitchen gardens in their homesteads.
This has considerably improved their income, nutrition and health status The message of Hygiene essential for health improvement was propagated among the target families through house visits, awareness camps, cultural programs, exhibitions etc, Under this project Hygiene Education was also inculcated in the social children.
In order to improve the capacity of the staff to perform their task effectively to equip the target community for sustainability, various training programs were organized for them periodically.