Our goal is to inform the community about the opportunities they have to receive funding from the different government schemes that are in place to support sanitation practices in rural India. In order to help ensure this project’s sustainability, we will be engaging the community to take action in building their own toilets as well as encouraging them to take advantage of the government scheme that will provide them monetary compensation. The support provided by the Sehgal Foundation and Nourish International will serve as an incentive for the community by providing them with some of the materials necessary for the construction. Additionally, the structure of the toilet itself lends itself to endurance. The two pit system allows for one pit to be used and then once full, the second pit can be used while the contents of the first are decomposed. However, in order for this concept to work as it is meant to, the owners of the toilet must take responsibility for its upkeep. Additionally, community meetings will help to instill the new sanitation practices and ensure that they become lifelong habits.   

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​Our project was implemented over the course of six weeks. These six weeks included the initiation of Swachh Bharat promotion in Mundheta and Naseerpuri, as well as an impact assessment of the Nourish project started last summer (2015). In the first week, we introduced ourselves to the new and old villages, conducted transect walks and began compiling questionnaires to be asked during community meetings and to the VHSNC and Panchayat members. In the second and third weeks, we completed microplanning in Mundheta and Naseerpuri, which consisted of mapping the village and recording general information about who already has a toilet and who has yet to build one. In the fourth week took a convenience sample population of Bajhera , Baroji, and Gehbar to interview to assess the impact of last year’s project that also promoted the Swachh Bharat mission. In our fifth week, we conducted community meetings in both villages to inform the village members of the importance of sanitation and construction of toilets. We also conducted workshops, primarily for the children and mothers, to stress the importance of handwashing in preventing the spread of germs.