Health officers often visited homestead searching for sites of open defecation and the shame of villagers seeing the ‘fruits of their labour’ led many to dig pit latrines which are low cost ...

Today open defecation is on the decline worldwide ... The Swachh Bharat mission offers each household about $190 to construct a pit latrine—far more than other developing nations spend.

Operating in the narrow alleys of informal settlements in Nairobi and other cities is a group of people who play a crucial role in improving public health and sanitation. They are the unsung ...