Mapping Sanitation: a Tedx Talk by Faisal Chohan, a Senior TED Fellow

A quick 90 second video about an effort to map sanitation  in Rawalpindi Pakistan

Faisal Chohan, a Senior TED Fellow and TEDxIslamabad organizer, will now continue his mapping work with a related mission: Improving sanitation in order to prevent the spread of cholera—a bacterial infection in the small intestine, primarily caused by drinking water or eating food that has been contaminated by feces of an infected person. The rapid dehydration and electrolyte imbalance that results from cholera can lead to death if left untreated. Read more on TEDx….

 

Releated links

• pakreport.org  The Organization doing this and other work
• Saafpindi project    Page for Mapping Project itself
• parkreport blog 
• Fasil Chohan profile on wethedata.org
• Excelent source for more details by Faissal on GlobalGiving page

Other useful links

Scaling out Sanitation in Rawalpindi, Pakistan  2009 article by Pakistan Institute for Environment-Development Action Research (PIEDAR).

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