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GAIBANDHA-SKS-PROJECT
SHOMOTA project being run to create positive impacts among beneficiaries
GAIBANDHA, June 7, 2021(BSS)- A development project namely Strengthening Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Wash in Bangladesh (SHOMOTA) is being run at four unions of the district for creating positive impacts to the project beneficiaries.
SKS Foundation, a local reputed non-government organistion, in partnership with World Vision Bangladesh is implementing the SHOMOTA project at Gidari and Mollarchar unions under Sadar upazila and Kanchipara and Urya unions under Fulchhari upazila in the district from September, 2018.
The project is being run for the welfare of women, children and the persons with disabilities of the unions with the financial support of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Australia while Centre for Disability Development, Bangladesh is providing its technical assistance.
To improve gender and disability inclusive wash in schools and communities is the goal of the project, said an official.
In this regard, a press briefing organised by the project was held at Uttar Gidari under the Gidari union of Sadar upazila here this noon.
Hasina Parvin, district coordinator of the project, briefed the journalists about the project’s development works.
A number of hand washing stations had been set up for the people of all ages at important places of the project areas side by side with distributing 4,700 units of hand sanitizers to prevent the spread of coronavirus, she said.
Apart from this, 479 sanitary latrines and 580 tube-wells had been set up at the project areas to ensure a good hygienic environment and supply pure drinking water to the people under the project areas to save them from various diseases, she mentioned.
The adolescent girls under the project areas are being aware about their reproductive health by its female staff so that they could keep fit clean physically during their periodical time, she concluded.
All the project officials and field-level staff of the project, local public representatives and civil society members were present on the occasion.
BSS/CORR/SSS/1851 hrs