Lost count of the little fingernails I painted and the amount of blue eyeshadow @ZdP applied at a slum today pic.twitter.com/7i5GqAEsil
— Ms Rosie Bea (@Ms_Rosie_Bea) July 11, 2017
The Women and children that we met in the community are forced to relieve themselves in an open field, exposed to prying eyes. They risk sexual assault as well as snake bites and contracting malaria from mosquitoes. If this wasn’t bad enough, women who are on their periods have absolutely no privacy.
But all that is about to change. With funding from the H&M Foundation, we will be building toilets, a sewage treatment plant and rainwater harvesting systems to change the lives of the women and children that we met (and the men too!).
I spoke to a few people today about my recent trip to India (including a woman who stopped me in the street to say she enjoyed my photos (thank you again) It was such an honour to be invited to work with @practical_action & @hmfoundation – to actually see direct results and to meet the wonderful people who will benefit from the life changing projects they are working on. The things I saw, people I meet and places we visited will stay with me for life, at times I felt like I was inside a TV program – it was unreal, humbling and inspiring. Thanks for all your kind words, support and for following my trip – videos to follow next week x And big thanks to @practical_action for all that you do for the world ❤️ #dresslikeamuminindia #india #practicalactionindia #practicalaction #hm #hmfoundation
It was fantastic to open Zoe and Rosie’s eyes to these issues, to help them understand the problems that people are facing and how we are going to work together to fix them.
We were given such a warm welcome, particularly when we arrived laden with make-up for the teenagers in the community. We lost count of the number of fingernails that were painted and blue eye shadow that was applied!
Working with ‘social influencers’ like Zoe and Rosie is a new thing for us but is really helping us to reach new audiences with our work. We’ll be back in November once the toilets are under construction – watch this space!
Watch Rosie’s video about the visit
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