A seven-year-old Indian woman presented to the police after her father broke the promise to build a bathroom for him. In a letter, Hanifa Zaara told the police that her father had cheated on her and that she should be arrested.
Hanifa Zaara, 7, wrote to the police to tell him that his father had not kept the promise of building a bathroom in his house.
Hanifa lives with her parents in Ambur, in southern India, and has never had a bathroom at home.
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Needs are made outside the house, in the open air. For the BBC, the girl said that it was the situation of most houses in her neighborhood.
"I was ashamed to go out and do my needs.I felt bad when people were watching me," Hanifa said.
Like Hanifa, many Indians do not have access to toilets. According to UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), about 500 million people are defecating outdoors.
When she was at daycare, Hanifa had asked her father to build a bathroom at home. The father then said that he would do it if the girl was the first student in the clbad. The girl was even more motivated to go to the bathroom after learning at school the health problems caused by open defecation.
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If it was not possible to stop him, Hanifa suggested that the police at least require his father to hand in a signed letter stating the exact time he would build the bathroom, so he could 39, avoid any further delay.
The girl's father, Ehsanullah, told the BBC that he had started building the bathroom, but that he did not have the money to finish it. For the moment, you are unemployed. "I asked Hanifa to give me more time, but she stopped talking to me because I could not keep my promise."
Hanifa is not indulgent to his father: "How long will I have to continue asking for the same thing?"
Last Sunday, Hanifa went to the nearest police station from her school, accompanied by her mother, Mehareen. "She (Hanifa) arrived with a bag of trophies and school certificates and distributed them around my desk," said police officer A Valarmathi.
girl then told the police officer: "Can you give me a bathroom?"
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Police Officer Valamarthi then called Hanifa's father, Ehsanullah, to the police station. He then ran to the scene, worried that his daughter and his wife were in danger. And he was shocked when he discovered the real reason he had been summoned.
After reading the detailed letter written by Hanifa, Ehsanullah stated that his daughter had to learn to write letters to the authorities when she saw him doing the same. Ehsanullah often helps the people in his community to fill out government papers and write to local authorities.
"I never thought it would turn against me," Ehsanullah commented.
Hanifa's efforts won the sympathy and support of the police. "Your complaint was very honest, so we tried to solve the problem," said police officer Valamarthi, who warned local authorities against the problem. It is now planned to raise funds to build more than 500 bathrooms in the Hanifa district.
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