Because of throwing cloth in the gutter, it gets clogged…

August 30, 2010, 8:43 am
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STORY & PHOTOS By Pranali Aihre (11 years old). Pranali is an active participant in the SNEHA Girls Gaining Ground program.

Part 5 in the series “From the Eyes of a Girl”

Translated from Marathi

In India there are so many garbage dumpsters, but even still, people throw cloth and plastic bags in gutters. Because of that water gets clogged in the gutters and the water overflows into homes. So homes become dirty and that leads to malaria, typhoid, and other illnesses that are contagious. Because of these contagious illnesses, babies die and people die. Thus I want to tell Indians that cloth and plastic bags are only to be thrown in the assigned dumpsters and not in the gutters. If everyone thinks like this, our country will be pure and clean.