Joe Madiath: Better toilets, better life
Joe Madiath: Bättre toaletter, bättre livsvillkor
Joe Madiath brings Indian villagers together around water and sanitation projects. Full bio
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to speak about food
aromas and tastes.
färger, aromer och smaker.
the digestive system,
matsmältningssystemet,
to speak about it.
populärt att prata om den.
skitsnack till snack om skit.
from bullshit to full-shit.
"village development organization,"
"organisationen för byutveckling",
of renewable energy.
producing biogas,
by using animal manure,
is called cow dung.
person that I am,
and the disposal of crap in a proper way,
ta hand om avföring på ett korrekt sätt,
in India and most developing countries
och de flesta utvecklingsländer,
for poor quality water,
den dåliga vattenkvaliteten,
to the disposal of human waste.
urusla inställning till mänsklig avföring.
badvattnet, tvättvattnet,
bathing water, washing water,
of the diseases in rural areas.
sjukdomarna i på landsbygden.
women who carry water.
kvinnorna som bär vatten.
women have to carry water.
måste de bära vatten.
defecates in the open.
defekerar i det fria.
sina bakdelar,
into the open is by Indians.
slängs i det fria slängt av indier.
of such a distinction.
vi indier kan vara stolta över.
kunde tackla sanitetssituationen.
address this situation of sanitation.
a project called MANTRA.
Nätverk för förvandling av rurala områden.
Network for Transformation of Rural Areas.
transformation in rural areas.
en omvandling av landsbygdsområden.
to implement this project,
consists of all members
kvinnor som genomför projektet
who implement the project
the operation and maintenance.
för drift och underhåll.
and a shower room.
toalett och ett duschrum.
reservoar och leds ut till alla hushåll
reservoir and piped to all households
one in the kitchen, 24 hours a day.
och en i köket, dygnet runt.
like New Delhi and Bombay,
som New Delhi och Mumbai,
in the quality.
which is very much accepted
vilket är brett accepterat
and all those who matter,
alla som betyder något,
förtjänar dåliga lösningar
pathetic solutions.
förtjänar patetiska lösningar.
a Nobel Prize-worthy theory that
Nobelprisvärda teorin
are forced to drink.
de fattiga tvingas svälja.
humiliated for centuries.
förnedrats i århundraden.
and very often,
och väldigt ofta
better than their houses.
är bättre än deras bostäder.
the attached houses
i framkanten syns husen
exception of a family in a village,
toalett och badrum.
collect all the local materials --
allt lokalt material --
sand, aggregates,
sand, stenmaterial,
från lokala myndigheter
kostnaden för externt material
of external materials
and a bathing room.
de oftast jordlösa daglönarna,
daily wage earners, mostly landless,
trained as masons and plumbers.
till murare och rörmokare.
others are collecting the materials.
samlar andra in material.
en toalett, ett duschrum,
they build a toilet, a shower room,
an elevated water reservoir.
en upphöjd vattenreservoar.
två spillvattenbrunnar.
to treat the waste.
into the first leach pit.
till den första brunnen.
and it can go to the next.
avföringen förs vidare till nästa.
bananträd och papayaträd,
banana trees, papaya trees
de fick mycket näring
because they suck up all the nutrients
och hälsar på hos mig,
these bananas and papayas with you.
the completed toilets, the water towers.
most of the people are even illiterate.
very often when you store it --
förorenat om man magasinerar det --
something falls into it.
i det, någonting faller i.
det finns bara rinnande vatten.
water reservoir is constructed.
and there is some space available,
plats under behållaren,
under the water tower,
different committee meetings.
att detta program har effekt.
of the great impact of this program.
from waterborne diseases.
av någon form av vattenburen sjukdom.
visar empiriska bevis att 82 procent,
that 82 percent, on average,
1,200 villages have completed it --
have come down 82 percent.
minskat med 82 procent.
especially in the summer months,
speciellt under sommarmånaderna,
med att bära vatten.
a day carrying water.
kvinnorna som bär vatten,
it's only women who carry water,
girl children, also to carry water,
små flickor, för att hjälpa till,
to look after the siblings.
och ta hand om syskonen.
of girl children attending school,
av flickorna i skolan,
trettio procent i skolan.
and boys, almost to 100 percent.
och nästan alla pojkarna i skolan.
the daily wage-earners.
through this training
increased 300 to 400 percent.
ökat med 300 till 400 procent.
a governing board, the committee.
och en styrgrupp, en kommitté.
people are governing themselves,
människor styr sig sig själva,
their own affairs,
into their hands.
the grassroots level in action.
have so far done this.
hittills genomfört projektet.
and it's still going on.
människor och projektet fortgår.
även på andra platser.
väl vara rinnande vatten och toaletter.
as taps and toilets.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Joe Madiath - Social entrepreneurJoe Madiath brings Indian villagers together around water and sanitation projects.
Why you should listen
When he was 12, Joe Madiath unionized young workers to fight for better work conditions. They were employed by... his own father. He was therefore sent away to a boarding school. After his studies, travels across India, and participating in relief work afer a devastating cyclone, in 1979 he founded Gram Vikas. The name translates to "village development" in both Hindi and Oriya, the language of the state of Orissa, where the organization is primarily active.
The bulk of Gram Vikas' efforts are on water and sanitation. The organization's approach is based on partnership with villagers and gender equity. In order to benefit from Gram Vikas' support to install water and sanitation systems, the entire village community needs to commit to participate in the planning, construction and maintenance, and all villagers, regardless of social, economic or caste status, will have access to the same facilities. This requirement of 100 percent participation is difficult, Madiath acknowledges, but it leads to socially equitable and long-term solutions. Gram Vikas has already reached over 1,200 communities and over 400,000 people.
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