
Teresiah’s toilet is one of its kind in the community - it is equipped with accessories such as hanging ropes and handles to make sitting down and getting up easier and made to certain specifications of height and space to suit her special needs. We notice that her manually-built pit toilet is enhanced with a raised platform and set skilfully with wooden planks for comfortable seating. Teresiah Wambui Kabusa proudly shows off her toilet to us when we make a visit to her community in the Naivasha sub-county in Kenya.


THE UNSUNG HEROES AND HEROINES OF FUMULIA NAROK IDP CAMP, NAIVASHA, KENYA During April-May 2013, the Task Force was further expanded to institute a 10-15 members team in each of the four districts, and all the selected local facilitators and some members from the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRI) were trained at the five days’ CLTS Training of Trainers programs held in each district. Communities initially started constructing temporary household toilets, and over the next six months, they improved their facilities, thereby moving up the sanitation ladder. By December 2012, just a month after the introduction of the pilot project, 15 villages in these districts became ODF through the application of CLTS methodology. A CLTS task force at the state level was also formed to spearhead the implementation as part of this initiative. Kamal Kar from the CLTS Foundation in Ranchi earlier that year. This began as an initiative of the Sate Water and Sanitation Mission (SWSM), Government of Jharkhand, following a CLTS orientation meeting with Dr.

Khunti and Lohardaga lead the ODF movement in Jharkhand, IndiaĬommunity-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) was introduced in Jharkhand in November 2012 through a pilot project in four districts namely Khunti, Lohardaga, Ranchi and Ramgarh.
