Ambur girl becomes brand ambassador for Rotary’s WinS programme
02/12/2019, STAFF REPORTER,CHENNAI
One fine day, seven-year-old Hanifa Zaara from Ambur walked up to her mother and said she was planning to file a police complaint against her father for not building a toilet inside their house. Aghast, her mother refused. But Zaara did not give up, and quietly walked to the station and spoke to the sub-inspector, who was shocked as well.
He immediately called her father and the municipality officials. “They took my complaint and built a toilet in a day’s time [under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana]. And I am not the only one who has got it. Now, nearly 100 families near my residence have a toilet too,” she says with a beaming smile.
Now, she has become the ‘Swachch Ambassador’ for the Ambur Municipality, and on Sunday, she was also made the ‘Ambassador of WinS programme of Rotary’.
The Rotary Club’s Wash-in-Schools (WinS) programme was started in 2017 to celebrate the 100th year of the Rotary Foundation, as a pilot project that aimed to ensure schoolchildren got pure drinking water, gender-segregated toilets and handwash stations.
02/12/2019, STAFF REPORTER,CHENNAI
One fine day, seven-year-old Hanifa Zaara from Ambur walked up to her mother and said she was planning to file a police complaint against her father for not building a toilet inside their house. Aghast, her mother refused. But Zaara did not give up, and quietly walked to the station and spoke to the sub-inspector, who was shocked as well.
He immediately called her father and the municipality officials. “They took my complaint and built a toilet in a day’s time [under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana]. And I am not the only one who has got it. Now, nearly 100 families near my residence have a toilet too,” she says with a beaming smile.
Now, she has become the ‘Swachch Ambassador’ for the Ambur Municipality, and on Sunday, she was also made the ‘Ambassador of WinS programme of Rotary’.
The Rotary Club’s Wash-in-Schools (WinS) programme was started in 2017 to celebrate the 100th year of the Rotary Foundation, as a pilot project that aimed to ensure schoolchildren got pure drinking water, gender-segregated toilets and handwash stations.
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