Call for supply of arsenic-free drinking water, sanitation facilities for all
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Speakers called for ensuring supply of safe and arsenic-free drinking water and full sanitation facilities for every family to keep the environment clean and maintaining good hygienic condition for all.
They called upon all to work unitedly in preventing all sorts of prevailing social curses like child marriage, dowry, polygamy and divorce, repression on women and children, human trafficking and ensuring nutrition, safe delivery and motherhood and child-health.
The speakers made the appeal while speaking at an inaugural function of the two-day Watsan Fair jointly organised by ASOD and Department of Public Health and Engineering (DPHE) with the assistances of the UNICEF on Amashu Progoti High School ground under Porshuram union at Sadar Upazila in Rangpur Monday, reports BSS.
The speakers said that a healthy and sound nation can be built and average life span can be increased through ensuring adequate sanitation facilities and safe drinking water for all.
They also underscored the need for creating mass public awareness involving the common people including the women at the grass root levels to achieve the goals through ensuring basic needs of safe drinking water and sanitation for all everywhere.
The fair is being organised to involve the rural people including women at larger scale to create mass public awareness on pure drinking water and environmental sanitation through promoting hygienic conditions in rural areas.
A total of 30 stalls had been installed by different NGOs, local public bodies and service providing organisations displaying various sanitation and safe-drinking water materials and other things to create awareness on the issues in the fair.
More stalls have also been set up by different NGOs, Danish-Bangladesh Leprosy Mission (DBLM), International Grammar School, Rangpur Dental College (RDC) and Bangladesh Human Rights Enforcement Association (BHREA).
The private entrepreneurs have set up stalls displaying various homemade handicraft products, the RDC has been organising blood donation camp, the DBLM providing treatments to leprosy patients, and free treatments of teeth and eye diseases are also being provided.
Cultural functions, singing of folklore and popular songs on various subjects like sanitation, safe drinking water, birth and marriage registrations, drug- addiction are being organised and the rural children are riding on the traditional 'Nagor Dola' in the fair.
Hundreds of common people of all ages, farmers, students, teachers, adolescents, Ansar-VDP members, women community leaders and public representatives, day- and farm-labourers attended the inaugural ceremony.
Chaired by Porshuram Union Superviser of ASOD Sikto Sarker, Porshuram union chairman Ekramul Haque attended the ceremony as the chief guest and programme coordinator of ASOD Sheraful Hossain Himel was present as the special guest.
Besides, ASOD executives, journalists, officials, local public representatives, local women entrepreneurs, teachers, professionals, women community leaders, elite and DPHE officials also addressed, among others, at the function.
They called upon all to work unitedly in preventing all sorts of prevailing social curses like child marriage, dowry, polygamy and divorce, repression on women and children, human trafficking and ensuring nutrition, safe delivery and motherhood and child-health.
The speakers made the appeal while speaking at an inaugural function of the two-day Watsan Fair jointly organised by ASOD and Department of Public Health and Engineering (DPHE) with the assistances of the UNICEF on Amashu Progoti High School ground under Porshuram union at Sadar Upazila in Rangpur Monday, reports BSS.
The speakers said that a healthy and sound nation can be built and average life span can be increased through ensuring adequate sanitation facilities and safe drinking water for all.
They also underscored the need for creating mass public awareness involving the common people including the women at the grass root levels to achieve the goals through ensuring basic needs of safe drinking water and sanitation for all everywhere.
The fair is being organised to involve the rural people including women at larger scale to create mass public awareness on pure drinking water and environmental sanitation through promoting hygienic conditions in rural areas.
A total of 30 stalls had been installed by different NGOs, local public bodies and service providing organisations displaying various sanitation and safe-drinking water materials and other things to create awareness on the issues in the fair.
More stalls have also been set up by different NGOs, Danish-Bangladesh Leprosy Mission (DBLM), International Grammar School, Rangpur Dental College (RDC) and Bangladesh Human Rights Enforcement Association (BHREA).
The private entrepreneurs have set up stalls displaying various homemade handicraft products, the RDC has been organising blood donation camp, the DBLM providing treatments to leprosy patients, and free treatments of teeth and eye diseases are also being provided.
Cultural functions, singing of folklore and popular songs on various subjects like sanitation, safe drinking water, birth and marriage registrations, drug- addiction are being organised and the rural children are riding on the traditional 'Nagor Dola' in the fair.
Hundreds of common people of all ages, farmers, students, teachers, adolescents, Ansar-VDP members, women community leaders and public representatives, day- and farm-labourers attended the inaugural ceremony.
Chaired by Porshuram Union Superviser of ASOD Sikto Sarker, Porshuram union chairman Ekramul Haque attended the ceremony as the chief guest and programme coordinator of ASOD Sheraful Hossain Himel was present as the special guest.
Besides, ASOD executives, journalists, officials, local public representatives, local women entrepreneurs, teachers, professionals, women community leaders, elite and DPHE officials also addressed, among others, at the function.