The Satya Bharti School in Basai Bhopal, Rajasthan initiated a campaign to promote using toilets at home instead of the open field near the school. They organized meetings with the community to raise awareness of the health and environmental benefits of toilets. Students helped conduct rallies, plays and songs. The community was involved in cleaning the field. As a result, community members have started using toilets at home and maintaining cleanliness. Both the community and teachers are happy with this positive change and will continue their efforts.

1. Our story of Change from
Satya Bharti School, Basai Bhopal, Alwar,
Rajasthan,
Bharti Foundation
The change we plan to bring about in the
community:
To promote using of toilets

2. Introduction
Bharti Foundation Satya Bharti School Program
• The Satya Bharti School Program is the flagship
• Bharti Foundation is the program of Bharti Foundation.
• It aims to deliver free quality education to
philanthropic arm of Bharti underprivileged children, with special focus on the girl
Group Companies. child across rural India.
• The program goal is to establish 500 Primary and 50
• The Foundation aims to help Senior Schools reaching out to over 200,000 students
• The promise of this large scale program, through its
underprivileged children and operation, is to create a replicable, scalable and
holistic model of quality education in rural India
young people of our country
• Present Operational Status:
realize their potential. • Number of Schools Operational:250
• States of Operation: Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan,
Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal & Tamil Nadu
• Number of Students Enrolled: Over 36,000

3. Geographical Location:
• Basai bhopal Singh is located at 20 km from NH-8 and
District office of Bharti Foundation.
• - With a total population of 1572 In 756 no. of households.

4. - Dominant Caste in Village is Rajput.
- women dressing style is Ghagra & Odhni.
• Cultural Background:
– Majority of the population belongs to
Hindu community .They followed
Hindu rituals and traiditions.

5. • Community people are
habituated to use open space
(field located in front of Satya
Bharti school) for toilet
purpose and polluting the
environment of school and
village. Next generation
studying at our schools has
realised the adverse impact
of using open space for the
same not only on our
environment but also it
effects our health. We felt it a
first hand negative
impression of our village.

6. • ‘Promoting of using toilets at
every home rather than using
the open space’, we imagined
and make the people imagine
the same.
• Aware the community people
on benefits of using toilets.
• Make the community
responsible of prohibiting to
use open space in future for
toilet by involving them to
clean the field (located in front
of the school and earlier being
used for toilet) and prepare it
as a playground for the village
kids.

7. • Organised a meeting with
community people to make
them understand about the
initiative of Satya Bharti
School.
• Organised the rally against
the identified issue.
• Make them aware about
benefits of using toilets
rather than doing it in open
space.
• Door to door counselling and
discussion with villagers
• Conducted Street play, sang
motivational songs, slogans
with prepared ply cards,
poster and banners.

8. • Community people have understood the benefits of using toilets
at homes rather than using the open space located in front of
Satyabharti school.
• Community members involved and contributed their efforts to
clean the field located in front of our school.
• All of the participants in our joy for giving campaign have signed
on the common memorandum and took oath to use toilets and

9. •Work done by
panchayat to
promote toilet,
after our initiative

10. Upsarpanch giving appreciation letter to our Ht

11. • Understand the felt need of community and work on it which
gives new learning to them .
• Children feel proud to be a part of this campaign and become
change agents in the community.
• Staff members gained the confidence to deal with community
problems which is totally different from daily class room
teaching.
• They are curious to do such activity in near future and willing to
do something different from their daily routine work.

12. • Community members:
- ”Aaj hamare bachho ne ankhe khol di, hum apne
gaon ke prati aur apne prati bahut galat kar rahe the. Aaj se
hum apne gharo main hi sauch karenge aur dusre logo ko
bhi samjhayenge..”
-Bijendra Singh
Upsarpanch
• Teachers:
- ”Hame gaon main ye change lane ke liye, bahut
mehnat karna padi. Aur aaj hame ye dekh ke khushi milti hai
ki log gharon main hi sauchalya banakar uska upyog karne
lage hai, aur bahar ka watavaran saaf rakhte hain.”
- Rajaram Yadav
HT, Basai Bhopal

13. • Periodic and timely follow-up through:
- Door to door visit.
- Parents Teacher Meeting.
- Individual data keeping.
• Regular counselling to every stake
holders.
- Students.
- Parents.
- Community members.
- Community key persons.
• Trying to impart knowledge on making:
- Low cost toilets.
- Less cost on its’ maintenance.

14. Name of Mentor Teacher: Nidhi Sharma
No. of
# State District School Students Name of Student Class
Participating
SBGUPS BASAI 5 Sapna Chauhan VII
Khushbu VII
Neha Sharma VII
Babita Chauhan VIII
Komal Bai VIII
Rajasthan Alwar