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STORY: INDIA / WORLD TOILET DAY ADVANCER
TRT: 01:45
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: HINDI / NATS
DATELINE: 2014, RAJASTHAN, INDIA
2014, RAJASTHAN, INDIA
1. Wide shot, people walking in village
2. Medium shot, Kesar walking through village
3. Close up, Kesar’s feet as she walks
4. Medium shot, Kesar walking through village
5. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Kesar, Villager in Rajasthan:
“Going out affects my dignity, but there’s no other option. I have to go out. The thing is, if someone comes along, some man or woman, I have to stand up. That affects my dignity.”
6. Wide shot, Kesar walking to go to the bathroom
7. Wide shot, village and man walking on road
8. Wide shot, man walking to go to the bathroom
9. Wide shot, village with cows grazing
10. Wide shot, village meeting explaining benefits of toilets
11. Close up, man listening to meeting
12. Wide shot, village leader explaining benefits of toilets
13. Close up, woman listening
14. Close up, women holding pots
15. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Kesar, Villager in Rajasthan:
“Now that we’re digging a toilet, when the rains come it will be easier for me. Once the pits are dug then I won’t have to go out in the open.”
16. Wide shot, family building toilet
17. Close up, man building toilet
18. Medium shot, man laying down bricks for toilet
19. Wide shot, nurse standing outside office
20. Medium shot, nurse walking through office
21. Close up, nurse going through illness log
22. Extreme close up, nurse flipping through illness log
23. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Achana Sharma, Midwife Nurse, Rajasthan:
“The building of toilets has made a big impact. It’s made a huge difference. The incidents of diseases have come down. Peoples’ health has improved and now there isn’t as much of a problem.”
24. Wide shot, village road with motorcycle rider
25. Medium shot, woman cleaning with water
26. Wide shot, outside bathroom
27. Close up, toilet
More than half of India’s population does not use toilets, creating a sanitation problem throughout the country. Now a campaign encourages people to build, and use, toilets, and already health is improving.
In the state of Rajasthan in western India, 50-year-old Kesar starts her day as she always does; walking far in search of privacy to go to the bathroom. Because there is no toilet in her home, she has to find somewhere out in the fields, where no one can see her.
SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Kesar, Villager in Rajasthan:
“Going out affects my dignity, but there’s no other option. I have to go out. The thing is, if someone comes along, some man or woman, I have to stand up. That affects my dignity.”
Sixty percent of India’s population defecates in the open. It’s an age-old practice, the way things have always been done. But now that’s changing.
A program is under way that pays villages if they can get every family to install a toilet. But the money is just an added bonus. The real motivation is dignity and convenience.
SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Kesar, Villager in Rajasthan:
“Now that we’re digging a toilet, when the rains come it will be easier for me. Once the pits are dug then I won’t have to go out in the open.”
The campaign is already changing lives. In the village of Nal Beri people built 500 toilets in just ten days. The result is better health for the villagers. A nurse here says that she used to see 50 patients a month for diseases caused by feces; now she sees only one or two.
SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Achana Sharma, Midwife Nurse, Rajasthan:
“The building of toilets has made a big impact. It’s made a huge difference. The incidents of diseases have come down. Peoples’ health has improved and now there isn’t as much of a problem.”
