{"id":5644,"date":"2025-11-06T06:02:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aident.org\/?page_id=5644"},"modified":"2025-12-12T04:28:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:28:34","slug":"from-shame-to-pride-the-village-that-chose-cleanliness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aident.org\/?page_id=5644","title":{"rendered":"From Shame to Pride \u2013 The Village that Chose Cleanliness"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"5644\" class=\"elementor elementor-5644\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-797f716 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"797f716\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8f31c5a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8f31c5a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">From Shame to Pride \u2013 The Village that Chose Cleanliness<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b553f3a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"b553f3a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8672c20 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8672c20\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/aident.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/unnamed-1.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-5543\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ab43d8f e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ab43d8f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d8afcd3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d8afcd3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For years, the people of Bhagalpur\u2019s small hamlet avoided talking about sanitation. Open defecation was routine, toilets were seen as unnecessary, even shameful. But when AIDENT facilitators began their community meetings under the <\/span><b>Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> model, everything started to shift.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead of building toilets <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the villagers, AIDENT worked <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> them using discussions, maps, and self-assessment exercises to help communities see how open defecation was harming their children\u2019s health and dignity. Once the realization sank in, change began from within.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women\u2019s groups took the lead, mobilizing families, training local masons, and pooling resources to build their own toilets. Within months, the entire village was declared <\/span><b>Open Defecation Free (ODF)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. But what stayed behind was not just new toilets, it was new confidence.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNow our daughters go to school without fear. Cleanliness has become our identity,\u201d says Shanti Devi, one of the first volunteers.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through hundreds of such villages across <\/span><b>Jharkhand, Haryana, and Bihar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, AIDENT has helped more than <\/span><b>15 lakh people<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> adopt safe sanitation practices proving that real change comes when pride replaces shame.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Shame to Pride \u2013 The Village that Chose Cleanliness For years, the people of Bhagalpur\u2019s small hamlet avoided talking about sanitation. Open defecation was routine, toilets were seen as unnecessary, even shameful. But when AIDENT facilitators began their community meetings under the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) model, everything started to shift. 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