[Music]
I know sanitation is not one of the
hottest topics to talk about at a TEDx
event I don’t know a lot of you’re going
to be hooked about me talking about
sanitation at talking dirty right now
but I know it’s the need of the hour I
know we as a society are being grappled
by lack of sanitation and adequate water
what does water in our country so I’m
basically going to talk about what I
didn’t be hard it was a 6-1 journey that
I had so this is in a remote village in
Nylon the district where I was involved
in the construction of a toilet right so
we love food we Indians love to talk
about food we like to talk about
different aromas different textures
different cuisines when I talk about
where we got different ingredients from
but what happens after that nobody wants
to talk about what happens after the
same food that we all need goes through
the digestive system nobody wants to
talk about that why is that a taboo we
post pictures on Instagram on Facebook
on any social media talking about
different kinds of food that we’ve eaten
but the end product nobody wants to talk
about and we see that lying all around
the place but still nobody bats an
eyelid about it
why why is it such an issue for us why
do we not talk I’m sorry for my
language but that’s basically they put
it very crudely that’s basically what we
don’t do so as a kid I remember nothing
about this job asking people what’s the
longest toilet in the world the Indian
Railways right we know that Indian
Railways is littered with our Indian
human poop lying all around but nobody
did anything about it
it was funny then it was funny when as a
kid I laughed about it I should tell the
jokes to my friends my parents to my
relatives but it isn’t funny anymore
we have 1.1 billion people all over the
world who defecate in the open of this
1.1 billion people
yeah about 600 million of them in India
this is not a small number it’s quiet
it’s a country by itself and we know how
big a population India is so we come
from this country where mothma Gandhi
100 years ago said that sanitation is
more important to us and independence
it’s hundred years now
where we still see 60 percent of our
population defecating in the open so but
the government has done quite a lot in
the past we’ve introduced sanitation
campaigns were introduced NBA which is
the neutral palette of beyond we spoke a
lot about ending open defecation in a
country like ours we said we’ll provide
toilets to the rural communities to
urban communities he’s done quite a bit
they plan to end open defecation in
India by 2012 but we still falling short
of it by huge numbers and then
thankfully mr. Narendra Modi was
appointed as the Prime Minister in 2014
on October 2nd said he’s going to launch
his flagship programme called the swachh
bharat mission so I’m sure everybody’s
been talking about swatch part of
mission we’ve been speaking about sort
of our admission Grameen which is
basically to provide sanitation
facilities to villagers we even had a
recent movie by Akshay Kumar I don’t
know how many if you saw this but it was
a movie where the movies about toilet I
mean who wants to watch a movie about
the humble latrine right and see
Narendra Modi in a speech as well say
that it’s important to construct toilets
before we start spending our money in
building temples so we we falling short
of around 7 crore toilets that are going
to be built in villages in the next two
years so the swatch part of Mission
Grameen his idea is to end open
defecation in India by 2019 while I
think it’s an ambitious project I think
you’re going to fall short of it by huge
numbers but at least it’s the first time
that our Prime Minister actually stepped
up to speak about a pressing issue that
our country is facing today
right so India’s not the only country
that is having problems with open
defecation right we have a lot of other
countries other developing nations in
Africa in Southeast Asia are battling
the same problem that you’re facing feed
lack of sanitation lack of water we’re
all fighting the same problems so United
Nations set up DST G’s which is the
sustainable development goals 2030 where
they decided that by the year 2030 we as
the world will end open defecation
that’s the goal 6 which is clean water
and sanitation will be provided to every
hue
being on our planet so why why do we
talk about sanitation why is it so
important we all thought would clean
water everybody wants to spend our
budget on clean water providing clean
water team drinking water services to
everybody improving a borewells
doing things but nobody wants to talk
about clean toilets there I mean the
basic symbol for Saline toilet that they
all sit on in the morning have read your
newspaper come up with brilliant ideas
in the morning is something that’s
missing in our world why why do we speak
about it thousand odd children a day die
because of diarrhea related diseases and
this is because of lack of adequate
sanitation facility people defecating
the open cause rampant disease spread
because of this one gram of fecal matter
contains numerous viruses and bacteria
that caused harmful diseases to us are
these thousand children that died 300 of
them are in India every single day 300
student died because of lack of adequate
sanitation we know kids drop out of
school kids in rural communities double
school because of lack of sanitation
facilities especially girl children the
moment they hit puberty and start
menstruating kids the girls children
drop out of school because they don’t
have a sanitation facility sanitation is
not just bringing a toilet it’s about
creating a sense of dignity and sense of
pride for people I don’t even want to
talk about how polluting it is to our
environment where we see people
defecating in the open and we see all
sorts of filth lying all around it’s our
human waste that lying around we do not
want our kids and the next generations
to grow up in this world and the
economic losses are really high as well
we lose about a hundred and six billion
dollars because of lack of sanitation
because of health because of people
dropping out of work people talking out
of colleges you were dropping into
schools so it is an issue that we need
to speak about so I was lucky enough to
be selected for a project that was in
Bihar while I was doing my master’s in
Sweden so I’ve never been to be hard
right and it’s a scary place for me so
I’m I’m from Bangalore so for me to go
to
go to a place like Bihar is is like a
big culture shock so I went there I went
to behind I went to this little village
called Mahad record I stayed there for
six months not knowing what I was gonna
do I was just told go and build a toilet
I said okay that seems really easy so
this is basically the village where I
stayed in for six months and this is
that’s the toilet that we’re building in
the background so this community of
around a hundred people have no
sanitation facility at all so you’re
building a community toilet for them and
they were surprised they said why are
you building a toilet we have the entire
field around there right they’re all
they’re all they’re the ones who carry
the lota and they go into the field in
the dark and so no I think it’s
important that you guys have a toilet
say no we have the entire field why do
we need to sit in a room in like a four
by four rooms sit on it not know what to
do after that so I found that really
shocking because for me the toilet is is
the most important thing right I mean
just by quick show of hands how many of
you look at a toilet the first thing
when you check into a hotel or any room
the first thing that you all want to do
is see how clean the toilet is we’ve
taken it for granted we think a toilet
is alright but it’s a luxury for these
people so I went there the first the
first week was really difficult for me
to speak to anybody
Frawley because of my language I am knew
very little of Hindi I knew very little
of both food at this port but I had a
translator luckily so I was able to do
that but but what I saw the Willys was
really shocking this is a sewer line
that runs right pillow the kitchen
that’s where the kids defecate in the
open the mother washes the kid there and
then with the same hand grows and cooks
the food there’s no there’s no
sanitation facility people don’t know
what hand-washing does they don’t use
soaps they don’t use anything they want
they defecate in the open and they
assume that a child’s fecal matter
doesn’t cause harm to them but it is
equally harmful as you can see the
that’s the boy well there you have kids
defecating right where the ball is and
that was a toilet that was constructed
by the government so government is used
as think oil
flight of an approach where they decided
that we just going to go ahead give toys
to people and then tell them to use it
but it doesn’t work like that in a
country like ours and that was basically
what I thought was gonna happen to my
project where I did just go and build a
toilet but I realized that a demand
driven approach was actually what was
needed so that first let me speak to the
villages to find out why they did not
want to use a toilet and what we can do
about it so I started conducting
meetings with the people in the village
but what happened is the very first
meeting that I had was with only men I
asked him can we meet and only the men
came and they conveniently said yeah we
can start the meeting so I said no the
sanitation facilities for the women and
for the kids as well
so the second meeting onwards we had
women and men and kids participating in
all our meetings because none of them
realized that sanitation was more
important for the women and for the
children so women in this village
reported of sexual abuse because they
had to go and defecate and in the open
at 4:00 a.m. in the morning they had to
hide from all the Predators not to
mention their world jackals and cobras
and scorpions that that I’ve seen and
these are the women who walked a
kilometer every single day to get water
and come back to the household so what
we did is a lot of them believe that
having a toilet in the house it was a
dirty thing they didn’t know that it was
it was okay if it wasn’t constructed in
a safe and hygienic matter there
wouldn’t be a problem with having a
toilet in the building so what he
decided to do is we decided to consult a
community toilet where everybody can
utilize and create a sense of ownership
where people would be responsible for
maintaining the toilet constructing the
toilet was the easy bit but getting
people to sit on it was really difficult
so what we did is we owed him all of
this through regular meetings that we
had with the villagers and we got the
kids in wall as well on what they
thought the importance of sanitation was
so one thing that we did with our
sanitation toilet that we constructed
ours were completely waterless so we
adopted this technology called
ecological sanitation toilets which
basically are waterless and they work on
composting so these toilets are
waterless
we had a composting chamber that was
constructed below the entire toilet
facility and we had a composting chamber
where the entire fecal matter was
composted and after a period of five
years was removed as compost and
utilized as a fertilizer for the field
so 90% of the people who are in this
village are primarily farmers so they
rely on using da P urea and harmful
chemicals for further farms so what we
did is we had this technology from
Sweden where we could sanitize urine and
sanitize fecal matter and apply the same
on to crops so that’s basically what we
did so that’s papaya that’s lettuce and
cabbage and we use this to grow crops so
we bought half an acre of land where we
had farmers come and see how beneficial
it was to use human excrement for
creating food a lot of the villas were
shocked they said no something that
we’re not going to eat and the moment I
saw people like us eat where I was
plucking papayas from the tree and
eating they said okay it’s fine we can
eat it this is basically the toilet we
constructed for this village in Bihar so
this is a composting chamber we use this
thing called as wormy composting where
we had dead worms that we never put
inside the composting chamber and these
rooms were responsible for generating
the compost from the fecal material yeah
so this is when you’re laying the first
foundation in the toilet right so so we
got the women to inaugurate the toilets
because I think it’s the most important
thing that we could do for the women
because none of the women ever felt
empowered they felt they were always a
neglected part of society but then when
women started speaking about the
problems of their face because of a lack
of toilet they realized that they had
the need to have a toilet so one of the
a very funny story that I heard when I
was working here was say ask these women
during one of the interview
we’re constructing a toilet for you
that’s so important because you all
leave at 4:00 in the morning you all
don’t know where to go to the toilet you
all wait until all the men are asleep
all the drunks are asleep and then you
go into the field so why do you do that
and that’s when we can talk about our
husbands to each other say go in groups
of five
they sit far away from each other and
they talk so that’s the reason why I did
not want to use a toilet something as
simple as that
so whoo-whee it was funny for me at that
point of time it was a very serious
issue so we got them to finally use the
toilet so before the toilets were
constructed we had about 80 percent of
them job out of school then when they
hit puberty but then when the toilets
for install we had an increased amount
of kids going back to school we had
women going back to school we had kids
going back to school and also we created
a sense of dignity and pride among the
villagers that was something that we did
through this intervention so yeah what
what could we do what can we do as a
society right I mean that’s basically
what we’re trying to do we’re trying to
find a purpose in life we’re trying to
see what we as individuals of this
society can help how can we help our
community members so while we have fancy
toilets created by a Toto in Japan where
we have heated toilets we have
self-rising lids we have we have
technologies there has gone to that that
point of time but we don’t have
something like that and India so I think
it’s really important that there’s no
specific toilet that is working in a
different part of the world it’s
different technologies they have to be
adopted like we built the waterless
toilet because this place in Bihar
lacked water so there’s no one fit
toilet saying that we need a poor flush
toilet we need water toilets we there’s
nothing it just depends on the scenario
that we’re in so reinvent the toilet
luckily we have Bill Gates and Melinda
Gates who have started Bill and Melinda
a Foundation which is basically
reinventing the toilet so we were
working towards reinventing the toilet
in the next couple of years where
everybody can have access to safe
economical and hygienic method of base
disposal right
and thanks to Narendra Modi that we have
made Sanjay Shin a political a priority
right now because
everybody’s talking about Swach Bharat
we know that toilets have to be
constructed but I think what they don’t
understand is constructing the toilet is
actually the easy part getting people to
use it as the difficult part we need to
create awareness when you tell people
why we need to use a toilet we need to
tell people what are the harmful effects
of not using a toilet what are the
harmful effects of defecating in the
open how there’s fecal matter is
contaminating our groundwater resources
our soil and our air rights it’s
important to do this and I think it’s
important to make sanitation sexy I
think it’s really important to do that I
think everybody likes to do something
that’s really cool in life we like to
own fancy gags we like to own an iPod
and iPhone we like to own things for
this because it’s cool it’s really sexy
you own these things right but we need
to make it important for these people in
the rural communities to tell them that
owning a toilet is sexy and it’s cool so
with that I want to end this talk by
requesting you all to go out and speak
to people who are working in your homes
it could be your mail it could be a
driver speak to them over the importance
of having sanitation facilities the
government has come with numerous
schemes and providing subsidies to go to
villagers and to people in rural
communities to build toilets on their
own so I request you all please stand up
speak for these people speak to the
rights of these people because
sanitation is an important right I think
while we busy sending satellites to Mars
we should start focusing on what we left
with on our planet as well right so I
think it’s important to make sanitation
really sexy and really important so
please speak up and speak sanitation and
talk dirty thank you
I know sanitation is not one of the
hottest topics to talk about at a TEDx
event I don’t know a lot of you’re going
to be hooked about me talking about
sanitation at talking dirty right now
but I know it’s the need of the hour I
know we as a society are being grappled
by lack of sanitation and adequate water
what does water in our country so I’m
basically going to talk about what I
didn’t be hard it was a 6-1 journey that
I had so this is in a remote village in
Nylon the district where I was involved
in the construction of a toilet right so
we love food we Indians love to talk
about food we like to talk about
different aromas different textures
different cuisines when I talk about
where we got different ingredients from
but what happens after that nobody wants
to talk about what happens after the
same food that we all need goes through
the digestive system nobody wants to
talk about that why is that a taboo we
post pictures on Instagram on Facebook
on any social media talking about
different kinds of food that we’ve eaten
but the end product nobody wants to talk
about and we see that lying all around
the place but still nobody bats an
eyelid about it
why why is it such an issue for us why
do we not talk I’m sorry for my
language but that’s basically they put
it very crudely that’s basically what we
don’t do so as a kid I remember nothing
about this job asking people what’s the
longest toilet in the world the Indian
Railways right we know that Indian
Railways is littered with our Indian
human poop lying all around but nobody
did anything about it
it was funny then it was funny when as a
kid I laughed about it I should tell the
jokes to my friends my parents to my
relatives but it isn’t funny anymore
we have 1.1 billion people all over the
world who defecate in the open of this
1.1 billion people
yeah about 600 million of them in India
this is not a small number it’s quiet
it’s a country by itself and we know how
big a population India is so we come
from this country where mothma Gandhi
100 years ago said that sanitation is
more important to us and independence
it’s hundred years now
where we still see 60 percent of our
population defecating in the open so but
the government has done quite a lot in
the past we’ve introduced sanitation
campaigns were introduced NBA which is
the neutral palette of beyond we spoke a
lot about ending open defecation in a
country like ours we said we’ll provide
toilets to the rural communities to
urban communities he’s done quite a bit
they plan to end open defecation in
India by 2012 but we still falling short
of it by huge numbers and then
thankfully mr. Narendra Modi was
appointed as the Prime Minister in 2014
on October 2nd said he’s going to launch
his flagship programme called the swachh
bharat mission so I’m sure everybody’s
been talking about swatch part of
mission we’ve been speaking about sort
of our admission Grameen which is
basically to provide sanitation
facilities to villagers we even had a
recent movie by Akshay Kumar I don’t
know how many if you saw this but it was
a movie where the movies about toilet I
mean who wants to watch a movie about
the humble latrine right and see
Narendra Modi in a speech as well say
that it’s important to construct toilets
before we start spending our money in
building temples so we we falling short
of around 7 crore toilets that are going
to be built in villages in the next two
years so the swatch part of Mission
Grameen his idea is to end open
defecation in India by 2019 while I
think it’s an ambitious project I think
you’re going to fall short of it by huge
numbers but at least it’s the first time
that our Prime Minister actually stepped
up to speak about a pressing issue that
our country is facing today
right so India’s not the only country
that is having problems with open
defecation right we have a lot of other
countries other developing nations in
Africa in Southeast Asia are battling
the same problem that you’re facing feed
lack of sanitation lack of water we’re
all fighting the same problems so United
Nations set up DST G’s which is the
sustainable development goals 2030 where
they decided that by the year 2030 we as
the world will end open defecation
that’s the goal 6 which is clean water
and sanitation will be provided to every
hue
being on our planet so why why do we
talk about sanitation why is it so
important we all thought would clean
water everybody wants to spend our
budget on clean water providing clean
water team drinking water services to
everybody improving a borewells
doing things but nobody wants to talk
about clean toilets there I mean the
basic symbol for Saline toilet that they
all sit on in the morning have read your
newspaper come up with brilliant ideas
in the morning is something that’s
missing in our world why why do we speak
about it thousand odd children a day die
because of diarrhea related diseases and
this is because of lack of adequate
sanitation facility people defecating
the open cause rampant disease spread
because of this one gram of fecal matter
contains numerous viruses and bacteria
that caused harmful diseases to us are
these thousand children that died 300 of
them are in India every single day 300
student died because of lack of adequate
sanitation we know kids drop out of
school kids in rural communities double
school because of lack of sanitation
facilities especially girl children the
moment they hit puberty and start
menstruating kids the girls children
drop out of school because they don’t
have a sanitation facility sanitation is
not just bringing a toilet it’s about
creating a sense of dignity and sense of
pride for people I don’t even want to
talk about how polluting it is to our
environment where we see people
defecating in the open and we see all
sorts of filth lying all around it’s our
human waste that lying around we do not
want our kids and the next generations
to grow up in this world and the
economic losses are really high as well
we lose about a hundred and six billion
dollars because of lack of sanitation
because of health because of people
dropping out of work people talking out
of colleges you were dropping into
schools so it is an issue that we need
to speak about so I was lucky enough to
be selected for a project that was in
Bihar while I was doing my master’s in
Sweden so I’ve never been to be hard
right and it’s a scary place for me so
I’m I’m from Bangalore so for me to go
to
go to a place like Bihar is is like a
big culture shock so I went there I went
to behind I went to this little village
called Mahad record I stayed there for
six months not knowing what I was gonna
do I was just told go and build a toilet
I said okay that seems really easy so
this is basically the village where I
stayed in for six months and this is
that’s the toilet that we’re building in
the background so this community of
around a hundred people have no
sanitation facility at all so you’re
building a community toilet for them and
they were surprised they said why are
you building a toilet we have the entire
field around there right they’re all
they’re all they’re the ones who carry
the lota and they go into the field in
the dark and so no I think it’s
important that you guys have a toilet
say no we have the entire field why do
we need to sit in a room in like a four
by four rooms sit on it not know what to
do after that so I found that really
shocking because for me the toilet is is
the most important thing right I mean
just by quick show of hands how many of
you look at a toilet the first thing
when you check into a hotel or any room
the first thing that you all want to do
is see how clean the toilet is we’ve
taken it for granted we think a toilet
is alright but it’s a luxury for these
people so I went there the first the
first week was really difficult for me
to speak to anybody
Frawley because of my language I am knew
very little of Hindi I knew very little
of both food at this port but I had a
translator luckily so I was able to do
that but but what I saw the Willys was
really shocking this is a sewer line
that runs right pillow the kitchen
that’s where the kids defecate in the
open the mother washes the kid there and
then with the same hand grows and cooks
the food there’s no there’s no
sanitation facility people don’t know
what hand-washing does they don’t use
soaps they don’t use anything they want
they defecate in the open and they
assume that a child’s fecal matter
doesn’t cause harm to them but it is
equally harmful as you can see the
that’s the boy well there you have kids
defecating right where the ball is and
that was a toilet that was constructed
by the government so government is used
as think oil
flight of an approach where they decided
that we just going to go ahead give toys
to people and then tell them to use it
but it doesn’t work like that in a
country like ours and that was basically
what I thought was gonna happen to my
project where I did just go and build a
toilet but I realized that a demand
driven approach was actually what was
needed so that first let me speak to the
villages to find out why they did not
want to use a toilet and what we can do
about it so I started conducting
meetings with the people in the village
but what happened is the very first
meeting that I had was with only men I
asked him can we meet and only the men
came and they conveniently said yeah we
can start the meeting so I said no the
sanitation facilities for the women and
for the kids as well
so the second meeting onwards we had
women and men and kids participating in
all our meetings because none of them
realized that sanitation was more
important for the women and for the
children so women in this village
reported of sexual abuse because they
had to go and defecate and in the open
at 4:00 a.m. in the morning they had to
hide from all the Predators not to
mention their world jackals and cobras
and scorpions that that I’ve seen and
these are the women who walked a
kilometer every single day to get water
and come back to the household so what
we did is a lot of them believe that
having a toilet in the house it was a
dirty thing they didn’t know that it was
it was okay if it wasn’t constructed in
a safe and hygienic matter there
wouldn’t be a problem with having a
toilet in the building so what he
decided to do is we decided to consult a
community toilet where everybody can
utilize and create a sense of ownership
where people would be responsible for
maintaining the toilet constructing the
toilet was the easy bit but getting
people to sit on it was really difficult
so what we did is we owed him all of
this through regular meetings that we
had with the villagers and we got the
kids in wall as well on what they
thought the importance of sanitation was
so one thing that we did with our
sanitation toilet that we constructed
ours were completely waterless so we
adopted this technology called
ecological sanitation toilets which
basically are waterless and they work on
composting so these toilets are
waterless
we had a composting chamber that was
constructed below the entire toilet
facility and we had a composting chamber
where the entire fecal matter was
composted and after a period of five
years was removed as compost and
utilized as a fertilizer for the field
so 90% of the people who are in this
village are primarily farmers so they
rely on using da P urea and harmful
chemicals for further farms so what we
did is we had this technology from
Sweden where we could sanitize urine and
sanitize fecal matter and apply the same
on to crops so that’s basically what we
did so that’s papaya that’s lettuce and
cabbage and we use this to grow crops so
we bought half an acre of land where we
had farmers come and see how beneficial
it was to use human excrement for
creating food a lot of the villas were
shocked they said no something that
we’re not going to eat and the moment I
saw people like us eat where I was
plucking papayas from the tree and
eating they said okay it’s fine we can
eat it this is basically the toilet we
constructed for this village in Bihar so
this is a composting chamber we use this
thing called as wormy composting where
we had dead worms that we never put
inside the composting chamber and these
rooms were responsible for generating
the compost from the fecal material yeah
so this is when you’re laying the first
foundation in the toilet right so so we
got the women to inaugurate the toilets
because I think it’s the most important
thing that we could do for the women
because none of the women ever felt
empowered they felt they were always a
neglected part of society but then when
women started speaking about the
problems of their face because of a lack
of toilet they realized that they had
the need to have a toilet so one of the
a very funny story that I heard when I
was working here was say ask these women
during one of the interview
we’re constructing a toilet for you
that’s so important because you all
leave at 4:00 in the morning you all
don’t know where to go to the toilet you
all wait until all the men are asleep
all the drunks are asleep and then you
go into the field so why do you do that
and that’s when we can talk about our
husbands to each other say go in groups
of five
they sit far away from each other and
they talk so that’s the reason why I did
not want to use a toilet something as
simple as that
so whoo-whee it was funny for me at that
point of time it was a very serious
issue so we got them to finally use the
toilet so before the toilets were
constructed we had about 80 percent of
them job out of school then when they
hit puberty but then when the toilets
for install we had an increased amount
of kids going back to school we had
women going back to school we had kids
going back to school and also we created
a sense of dignity and pride among the
villagers that was something that we did
through this intervention so yeah what
what could we do what can we do as a
society right I mean that’s basically
what we’re trying to do we’re trying to
find a purpose in life we’re trying to
see what we as individuals of this
society can help how can we help our
community members so while we have fancy
toilets created by a Toto in Japan where
we have heated toilets we have
self-rising lids we have we have
technologies there has gone to that that
point of time but we don’t have
something like that and India so I think
it’s really important that there’s no
specific toilet that is working in a
different part of the world it’s
different technologies they have to be
adopted like we built the waterless
toilet because this place in Bihar
lacked water so there’s no one fit
toilet saying that we need a poor flush
toilet we need water toilets we there’s
nothing it just depends on the scenario
that we’re in so reinvent the toilet
luckily we have Bill Gates and Melinda
Gates who have started Bill and Melinda
a Foundation which is basically
reinventing the toilet so we were
working towards reinventing the toilet
in the next couple of years where
everybody can have access to safe
economical and hygienic method of base
disposal right
and thanks to Narendra Modi that we have
made Sanjay Shin a political a priority
right now because
everybody’s talking about Swach Bharat
we know that toilets have to be
constructed but I think what they don’t
understand is constructing the toilet is
actually the easy part getting people to
use it as the difficult part we need to
create awareness when you tell people
why we need to use a toilet we need to
tell people what are the harmful effects
of not using a toilet what are the
harmful effects of defecating in the
open how there’s fecal matter is
contaminating our groundwater resources
our soil and our air rights it’s
important to do this and I think it’s
important to make sanitation sexy I
think it’s really important to do that I
think everybody likes to do something
that’s really cool in life we like to
own fancy gags we like to own an iPod
and iPhone we like to own things for
this because it’s cool it’s really sexy
you own these things right but we need
to make it important for these people in
the rural communities to tell them that
owning a toilet is sexy and it’s cool so
with that I want to end this talk by
requesting you all to go out and speak
to people who are working in your homes
it could be your mail it could be a
driver speak to them over the importance
of having sanitation facilities the
government has come with numerous
schemes and providing subsidies to go to
villagers and to people in rural
communities to build toilets on their
own so I request you all please stand up
speak for these people speak to the
rights of these people because
sanitation is an important right I think
while we busy sending satellites to Mars
we should start focusing on what we left
with on our planet as well right so I
think it’s important to make sanitation
really sexy and really important so
please speak up and speak sanitation and
talk dirty thank you
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