{"id":1613,"date":"2016-07-22T12:20:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T04:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2017-04-22T08:36:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T00:36:16","slug":"pakistans-kalashi-women-supported-with-bathroom-building-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/pakistans-kalashi-women-supported-with-bathroom-building-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s Kalashi women supported with bathroom building project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>New facilities for Chitral community enhance safety and gender justice<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Islamic Relief has been tackling gender injustice with a bathroom building scheme in a remote area of Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.islamic-relief.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the Himalayan Bamburat Valley, in the northern district of Chitral, the Kalash indigenous group is Pakistan\u2019s smallest religious minority, with a community of less than 5,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Last year, when Chitral was hit by recurring disasters (first floods, then an earthquake) homes and other infrastructure were destroyed, including washing facilities, leaving women and girls vulnerable and without shelter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With support from UNICEF, Islamic Relief implemented a project to repair, replace and upgrade the damaged bathrooms, giving more than 500 women access to water, sanitation and hygiene facilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Local teams also rolled out an interactive communication campaign emphasizing the risks girls and women are exposed to when relieving themselves outside or traveling long distances to fetch water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The programme is part of Islamic Relief\u2019s work to provide women-focused solutions to accelerate gender equality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.islamic-relief.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.islamic-relief.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"455\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New facilities for Chitral community enhance safety and gender justice Islamic Relief has been tackling gender injustice with a bathroom building scheme in a remote area of Pakistan. &nbsp; &nbsp; In the Himalayan Bamburat Valley, in the northern district of Chitral, the Kalash indigenous group is Pakistan\u2019s smallest religious minority, with a community of less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldwide","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}