Dear HOPE Friends,
Bathrooms 🚽 Constructed to Benefit 500 Villagers 🛖 in Rural Sindh, Pakistan 🇵🇰
The depths of poverty ❤️🩹 within developing countries such as Pakistan 🇵🇰 can often reach levels that are far beyond poverty conditions in more developed regions such as North America and Europe 🌎. As an organization working to alleviate poverty in Pakistan 🇵🇰, the HOPE Team works at a grassroots level to improve the lives of communities living in unrecognized abject conditions - one area in which we have an extensive presence is Sujawal, Sindh, Pakistan.
Sujawal is a densely populated rural region in Sindh of approximately one million residents. HOPE has operated a 24/7 charity Hospital in Sujawal which serves 60,000 poor villagers annually for free/nominal cost for two decades.
This month, the HOPE Field Team carried out a project to construct bathrooms 🚽 to benefit 60 households in Sujawal. Even today, in areas subject to extreme poverty ❤️🩹 that has been further aggravated by natural disasters such as the 2022 Pakistan Flood Crisis 🌊 and political strife within Pakistan 🇵🇰, many rural communities such as Sujawal do not have access to proper bathrooms 🚽.
A lack of a seemingly basic necessity such as a bathroom 🚽 leads to a plethora of preventable health issues such as diarrhea and infectious diseases 😷 that are transmitted due to poor sanitation and hygiene 🤢. When human waste is not contained or handled in a sanitary manner, this exacerbates 📈 a vicious loop of easily transmittable diseases. Unfortunately children 🧒🏻 who are often playing outside unintentionally come in contact with unsanitary areas, thus making them the most vulnerable to developing and transmitting debilitating illnesses.
By constructing bathrooms 🚽 to benefit 500 villagers in Sujawal, we aim to bring some ease ❤️🩹 to their living conditions as well as take a direct stab at tackling preventable health conditions 😷 that abound in the rural region.
We are grateful ✨ to our supporters who have put their trust in our efforts to bring about lasting change to the lives of thousands.
Warm regards,
The HOPE USA 🇺🇸 🇵🇰, HOPE UK 🇬🇧 🇵🇰, and HOPE Pakistan 🇵🇰 Teams
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