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A School Teacher Who Transformed an Entire Village Needs Your Help to Make It...
Lonewadi, a small village in the Yavatmal district of Maharashtra, got its first vastishala (a makeshift primary school arranged by the government for villages that are far away from education...
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An Enterprising Young IAS Couple Has Developed an App to Help Anyone Find...
When nature calls, you have to answer. But, finding a clean public restroom in India, irrespective of whether its a city or a village, is no mean feat. You either end up having an experience awful...
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An NRI Couple Shows Us How to Return to India and Transform Its Villages
Ashish and Ruta Kalawar left their well-paying jobs in England and returned to India to help empower the rural citizens of the country. Help them make their adopted village open-defecation free!...
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This 16-Year-Old Feels Humiliated Because She Has to Defecate in the Open....
A young girl from Lonwadi village recalls how her village has developed in the past four years but one important thing is still missing. Rukmina is a 16-year-old girl from the village Lonwadi in the...
View ArticleVIDEO: This 104-Year-Old Sold Her Goats to Construct a Toilet. Now Her Entire...
Kotabharri village in Dhamtari district of Chhattisgarh is home to 104-year-old Kunwarbai Yadav who is known by many as the lady who sold her goats to construct a toilet near her house, and became a...
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Waterless and Zero-Waste: These Toilets Are Bringing A Sanitation Revolution...
Ever wonder about the efficiency of the modern toilet and water-based sewage systems? The conventional toilet design uses large amounts of water with each flush, something which just isn’t sustainable...
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TBI Blogs: This 16-Year-Old Is Changing Attitudes & Promoting Better...
Sixteen-year-old Soulya is championing the cause of WASH in her community, trying to bring about a change one step at a time, and making her way to becoming a role-model in her community. For an...
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How a Bunch of College Kids Made Two Delhi Slums Become Almost Completely...
In a bid to prevent open defecation and usher in hygiene and cleanliness among slum-dwellers of New Delhi, a group of college students have initiated a unique campaign that has brought down the open...
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At 16, This Girl Has Taken up the Mission of Making Her Village Open...
A year ago, the small hamlet named Nandgaon near Karjat in Maharashtra had over 100 houses and not a single toilet. The villagers would defecate in the open areas adjacent to a forest near the village....
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TBI Blogs: A Tin Body and a TT Ball Are All You Need to Create This Waterless...
Many government schools across India suffer from poor facilities, including terrible sanitation facilities and urinals. A new innovation is helping schools overcome this issue – waterless urinals for...
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15 Progressive Indian Villages That Will Make You Want to Ditch Your City...
"The future of India lies in its villages"- Mahatma Gandhi. In today's world, Gandhi’s words that India’s survival depends on the well-being of its villages seem even more pertinent. Seventy percent...
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A School Teacher Who Transformed an Entire Village Needs Your Help to Make It...
Lonwadi, a small village in the Yavatmal district of Maharashtra, got its first vastishala (a makeshift primary school arranged by the government for villages that are far away from education...
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300 Mumbai Students Worked Every Sunday for 2 Years & Gifted 107 Toilets to a...
Students of Kishinchand Chellaram (KC) College in Mumbai have constructed 107 toilets in the village of Karvale in Maharashtra to help it become Open Defecation Free. Considering that millions of...
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Meet the Women From Rural Odisha Who Are Fighting to End Open Defecation in...
Naranga Pujari has Mission Sanitation on her mind. This Self Help Group leader in Bandaguda village of Odisha’s Koraput district has, for the last few years, been working concertedly to spread...
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Bureaucrat Leads by Example, Cleans Toilet Pit in Warangal Village
Setting an unprecedented example, the Central Drinking Water Supply and Swachh Bharat Mission secretary Parameswaran Iyer, who was on a visit to a Warangal village to promote and observe the twin pit...
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Can’t Marry Without Toilet in the House, Say Maulvis & Muftis in HP, Punjab...
In a welcome move, which gives a boost to issues concerning sanitation, maulvis and muftis in states like Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh have made it mandatory for houses to have toilets for...
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TBI Blogs: Tired of Govt Apathy, These UP Villagers Took Matters in Their...
Open defecation continues to be a prevalent issue in many parts of rural India. Community members from a village in an Uttar Pradesh district are coming together to resolve the problem in their own...
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TBI Blogs: Learn How a Village in UP Is Cleaning up Menstrual Waste...
Menstruation and menstrual waste are still taboo topics in many parts of India, especially in rural areas. Amidst this environment, a small village in Uttar Pradesh has taken a huge progressive towards...
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Sanitation Comes First for the Woman Who Mortgaged Jewellery to Build Over...
The Indian government is working towards making the country open defecation free by October 2, 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, by constructing toilets across the country. And a...
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Over 4,000 Toilets in South Delhi’s Restaurants Will Be Open for Public Use...
Starting next month, if you ever find yourself in South Delhi and in dire need to use the restroom, you can walk into any of the region's many restaurants and use their loos. But you may need to pay...
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