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Villagers stay in hut, use modern toilets BY TIRTHA NEUPANE THULADIHI, SYANGJA, March 19 - Nanda Bahadur Sunam of Mandanda VDC lives in a hut, but he has built a concrete toilet with modern facilities. "Toilet is the symbol of the persons' civilization but the house is not," says a confident Sunam, pointing towards his small hut, where his family lives. The hut costs not more than Rs 5,000 while the toilet they have been using was built after spending Rs 12,000. Sunam says he built the toilet two years ago with support from the Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS) that loaned him Rs 2,000, and the remaining expenses were borne by the family. He was the first to build such a modern toilet in the village as he was selected as the poorest dalit in the area. "Others soon followed," he added. Altogether there are 32 dalit families in the village. Fifteen of them have modern toilets. "Earlier, no-one preferred using toilets. They would answer natures call in the open fields before NRCS started helping them in building toilets," said Rajendra Sunam, of NRCS. But after the support from NRCS they started constructing and using toilets. Posted on: 2007-03-18 20:49:07 (Server Time)
