More than just a toilet
The Hindu
Rotary Club of Madras to extend HIS and HER Place to a few more localities
Rotary Club of Madras seeks to alter the perception about public toilets as unhygienic and ill-maintained, through its model project near Pedestrian Plaza at T. Nagar — HIS and HER Place. The facility comes with added amenities which include a feeding room for young mothers and a space for conducting medical check-ups.
Launched in 2020, the facility that is operated in association with CANSTOP and the Greater Chennai Corporation ran for some months before COVID-19 forced it to shut down temporarily. It reopened this year after the second wave.
Club members found that many women avoided public washrooms due to unhygienic conditions and they wanted to address the issue by building toilets. “We approached the Greater Chennai Corporation with a proposal and they asked us to renovate the existing toilets that were bad,” says Dr Vijaya Bharathi Rangarajan, past president, Rotary Club of Madras.