She persuaded her husband to build a toilet receive a reward of $ 10,000

A young woman from the Indian village of Madhya Pradesh rewards the charitable organization for refusing to celebrate defecate outdoors.

Squaw Anita Narre   It became an international celebrity, rebelling against the savagery that prevailed in the village spouse, to which she had moved after the wedding. Having lived in marriage a few days and make sure that her new place of residence no one is building latrines, preferring to relieve themselves in the street, she braced herself and her husband that she would leave him forever, if her family will stick to this tradition . And when the spouse does not agree to submit to protest left the house, thus prompting him to build toilets. However, after the husband of Anita, frightened by her determination, erected in the courtyard of the need to build, "rebelled" other women of the village, so in several local farmsteads any toilets.

Hearing of this case, representatives of the charitable organization Sulabh International decided to award Anita Narre   a courageous act for a cash prize in the amount of ten thousand dollars. Sulabh International for more than 40 years trying to teach the people of India, particularly in remote areas to comply with the elementary rules of hygiene, and its experts know firsthand how difficult it is. India holds a sad first place in the world in the number of people who are not familiar with basic toilets. In a country with a population of 1, 2 billion people, many are not aware that such an elementary toilet even in a suburban "house" with a hole in the floor - all natives celebrate natural needs right outside the house.

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