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Summary of Question:	Cleanliness In The Community
Category:	Health
Date Posted:	Tuesday, 11/11/2003 6:10 AM MST

I am Austrian born, married to a kind hearted indian from punjab. When I see a punjabi, getting up in the morning, first going to the toilet to clean his bowels and then clean his hands, then go and clean his teeth, then go to have bath to clean his body, eat his breakfast and immediately wash his hands and gurgle to remove all food rests from his mouth. Several times a day, after going to toilet, clean his hands. Before entering a gurudawara, clean his hands and feet.

THIS SHOWS that a Punjabi understands CLEANLINESS AT HOME, taught by mothers to do all that for hygiene. But as soon as he leaves his home and eat something from a stall etc. or the rests of the good carried with him, or anything he want to dispose off, he throws all that anywhere. All these bad habits bring dirt, filth and later germs, for our children to get ill.
When a child get infected or get germs and get ill, who suffers the most “ MOTHERS”

Why can’t “ MOTHERS “ get together to start “ CLEAN – PUNJAB “ program, telling their husbands and children, not to make streets and public places dirty, so that they don’t bring diseases home.

Let mothers like myself start, and show our males that what they have slept over, we women are capable of doing.

JOIN ME
Aloisia Saxinger ---- Austria

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Sat Siri Akaal. You're right. This Forum isn't really the way to get your program started. Start small. Work in your local Indian/gurdwara community and raise the consciousness there. Remember that in India, the caste system relegates trash pick up and street cleaning to one of the lowest castes, so this consciousness is not necessarily in everyone's mind.
Guru ang sang,
DKK