Working Together for a Healthy Environment

Villagers in Kubu Raya, West Kalimantan, are working together to build toilets for disadvantaged families. Village governments are assisting by helping fund the work.

April 2, 2018

Samiasih, 34, still vividly remembers the research she performed at the end of 2016. At the time, she was a family planning field officer working under Kubu Raya's health office and was looking into sanitation conditions in the district. The data she collected came as a shock.

"Almost all the houses I visited did not have proper toilets," said Samiasih, a resident of Rasau Jaya Umum Village. Even when a house did have a toilet, it would be a rudim

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