‘Tracing the Tracks’ Documentary Sheds Light on the Lives of Sanitation Workers from Tamil Nadu
Chennai: Dasra, a strategic philanthropy organisation, has launched a groundbreaking documentary titled ‘Tracing the Tracks’ to spotlight real, uncensored stories on the lives and journeys of sanitation workers. As part of the documentary, five sanitation workers from Tamil Nadu namely, Prema, Chitrakala, Muthulakshmi, Bharathi and Divya, have been featured. While these sanitation workers play a crucial and unmissable role in ensuring the safe management of human waste, which benefits all citizens, their journeys and voices remain absent from public consciousness.
Dasra is the Secretariat of the National Faecal Sludge and Septage Management (NFSSM) Alliance: a collaborative body driving discourse on faecal sludge and septage management (FSSM) forward in India with a key emphasis upon the need to ensure safe and dignified livelihoods for sanitation workers.
The thought-provoking documentary ‘Tracing the Tracks’ has been produced by Teepoi, a film production company based out of Bengaluru, Karnataka. Dasra partnered with Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), whose crucial work and direct engagement with sanitation workers has helped with documenting sanitation workers performing different types of duties across the sanitation value chain.
The complete documentary can be viewed on: https://youtu.be/B30mMDyfQuU
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