May 20, 2013: Saraswati Prasad (Joint Secretary- Sanitation) in a candid chat on on Doordarshan News stated that although as per the Census 2011 figures only 33% have access to toilets in the country, the Governement of India aims at making the country 'Nirmal' by 2022 through its flagship program Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan. See Video

May 7, 2013: The BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh has produced a new handwashing promotion video. It shows slides of handwashing promotion sessions for different groups (children, adolescent girls, women, men), as well as for schools, village WASH committees and mosques (imams).
The video was released on 5 May to coincide with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) annual global campaign  to promote better hand hygiene in health care. See Video (Source: DietVorst)

May 2013: Taking her role as the Brand Ambassador of Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA), the erstwhile Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC)- the flagship program of the Ministry of Rural Drinking  Water and Sanitation- Bollywood actress Vidya Balan  features in these series of advertisements for a healthier and cleaner India.

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May 2013: Taking her role as the Brand Ambassador of Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA), the erstwhile Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC)- the flagship program of the Ministry of Rural Drinking  Water and Sanitation- Bollywood actress Vidya Balan  features in these series of advertisements for a healthier and cleaner India.

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May 2013: Taking her role as the Brand Ambassador of Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA), the erstwhile Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC)- the flagship program of the Ministry of Rural Drinking  Water and Sanitation- Bollywood actress Vidya Balan  features in these series of advertisements for a healthier and cleaner India.

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Mar 22, 2013: As a follow-up to his “toilet strike” last month, actor Matt Damon narrates a new water.org video promoting sanitation and clean water that was released on  World Water Day.
“Quick, what invention saved the most lives in human history? The answer is the can, the john, the porcelain throne, the bog, the foreign office, the Thomas crapper. That’s right, the toilet,” says Damon.

Mar 8, 2013: In a new video, Mayadevi and Kaman (Nepal),  Toan and Thinh (VietNam) and  Tshering, Drukda, Tashi and Deschen (Bhutan) share stories about women’s participation, leadership and their changing roles in promoting sanitation and hygiene in  Nepal, Bhutan and Viet Nam.
The video is from SNV’s Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All Programme (SSH4A), which has been implemented by local governments and partners in 17 districts across Nepal, Bhutan, Laos, Viet Nam and Cambodia since

Mar 8, 2013: Water is a women's issue. It is women and girls who spend hours every day walking miles to collect water. It is women who care for their family when they are sick from diseases caused by unsafe water and sanitation. And it is girls who generally miss out on their education because they have to collect water or because schools have no decent toilets to protect their dignity when they reach puberty.

Feb 7, 2013: Actor Matt Damon vows to go on a 'toilet strike' to publicize the need to bring clean water and better sanitation to millions of people around the world.
If citing troubling statistics won't work, try humor. And social media, of course.

Jan 16, 2013: Child Rights WASH is pilot intervention by Samarthan with the support of SCF and WaterAid in 15 Panchayat of Sehore district of Madhya Pradesh, India.
Bal Suchna Patal were children's notice boards that were put up at prominent places in the villages frequented by the duty bearers. These notice boards provided an excellent medium for the children who were shy and discriminated against to express their WASH related needs. Children would write down their problems on the notice boards and these would be erased by them only when the problem was solved.