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SCOPE an NGO based
in Tiruchi, established in 1986 concentrates on rural development,
empowering the marginalized women in rural areas found out soon
that open defecation due to inability to construct toilets was one
of the basic problems that prevented their economic development.
Increased income was always eroded by increased medical bill, and
fall in income due to increased absenteeism. |
SCOPE
then concentrated building toilets with the help of State Government
TSC, and other agencies, and built over 15,000 pit pour and flush
pit latrines. The fast 5 years scope has been focusing on Ecological
Sanitation and has Constructed over 2000 Ecosan Toilets on the banks
of the rivers Ganges and Cauveri and in Tsunami hit Sandy coastal
villages of Tamilnadu .
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