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Toilet paper and latrines change Kengkhar Village in Bhutan

Improving lives

By UNDP Bhutan

August 22^nd, 2014

Footnotes Photos by Sonam Tsoki Tenzin; Story by Sonam Tsoki Tenzin & Tashi Dorji - UNDP Bhutan

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