Thursday, 2 September 2010

VOA News Reports On Efforts To Increase Numbers Of Households With Latrines In Cambodia

via Khmer NZ

01 Sep 2010

VOA News reports on efforts underway in Cambodia to increase the public's access to latrines and awareness of sanitation strategies. The department of rural health at the Ministry of Rural Development, together with assistance from international donors, hopes "to provide 30 percent of rural homes, or 720,000 households, with latrines by 2015 - up from half a million now," the news service writes. The article notes how the Ministry of Rural Development teamed up with agricultural development charity IDE Cambodia - a group credited with the creation of a low-cost toilet, known as the EZ latrine. "The cost - about $35 dollars, compared with up to $200 if a family tries to buy supplies and build a latrine using traditional methods," the news service writes. "IDE has begun a pilot program to help the poorest buy a latrine. Families pool one dollar a month, and each month the agent builds another latrine," VOA News adds (Carmichael, 8/30).

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