Sanitation

Global Interfaith Wash Alliance

Founded by UNICEF, The Global Interfaith Wash Alliance is a coalition of different faiths. Their goal is to provide access to safe drinking water as well as spread knowledge of sanitation to people all around the world. They are achieving this goal by working together with faith leaders who can help spread this information much more effectively than any other group could. To check out what they have done or get involved with them, check out their home website here. Below is a video providing a brief explanation of how GIWA came to be.

Video Credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H85RhyCn_Ug&feature=youtu.be

Ganga Sagar Mela Festival and Santitation

According to officials, the festival will be declared a Green Mela this year.

Photo Credit: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bengal-gearing-up-for-ganga-sagar-mela/article8058979.ece

The Ganga Sagar Mela Fetival is a meeting of million of pilgrims to cleanse themselves in the Ganges Delta. However, due to a lack of access to toilets and sanitary knowledge, it has also become a site for massive amounts of human waste. That’s all changing as the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance of India teams up with UNICEF to have faith leaders of different creeds teach followers how to begin using more sanitary practices. To see how these two different groups are coming together to achieve this common goal of human health, read the full story here.