Sanitation services for city slum dwellers launched
Staff Correspondent
Coalition for Urban Poor (CUP), a coalition of some NGOs, has launched sanitation and hygiene services to ten thousand slum dwelling families in the city through their newly constructed sanitation establishments.On completion of a significant portion of their project titled 'Water and Sanitation Rehabilitation Support to the Flood Affected Slums in Dhaka City', they formally opened up the establishments yesterday at Korail Basti Gulshan for the use of people living in low-lying slums. Under the project, CUP divided the city-slums in 13 groups and set up 40 two-chambered community sanitary latrines, 2300 general latrines, forty tube-wells and four water plants with the financial assistance of Unicef. They also organised 13 hygiene-education sessions as part of awareness raising programme under the project. Speaking as chief guest, Major (Rtd) Mohammed Quamrul Islam, state minister for expatriates' welfare and overseas employment, said such steps should have been taken much earlier, which was made possible by the joint effort of CUP-Unicef. Birendra Sreshtha, project officer of WES section of UNICEF-Bangladesh, and AUM Abdul Alim Naki, commissioner of Ward no-19 of DCC, also spoke on the occasion.
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