#sanitation

🇵🇰 Pakistan · HANDS Welfare Foundation

HANDS reports 5,380 villages declared open-defecation-free through its work, alongside constructed wetlands that clean toilet wastewater and school WASH clubs run by students.

🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Mela for Her

Mela, whose name means 'solution' in Amharic, employs Ethiopian women to handcraft reusable pads and period underwear and sells them door to door through 179 women agents.

🇲🇬 Madagascar · Loowatt MG

In Antananarivo, Loowatt MG's waterless toilets seal waste in a liner under the floor so crews can haul it away to be turned into biogas and fertiliser.

🇦🇫 Afghanistan · DACAAR (Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees)

Afghanistan's largest WASH NGO drills wells, monitors groundwater and rebuilds water networks across all 34 provinces, even as aid budgets shrink.

🇸🇻 El Salvador · Caminos de Acción

A grassroots nonprofit is bringing household water storage, filtration, and sanitation to a rural Salvadoran community where contaminated water once left most residents with parasites.

🇨🇦 Canada · The Period Purse

Volunteers at Period Purse packing parties stuff zip bags with pads, tampons and liners, and lit up 70 Canadian landmarks red for Menstrual Health Day.

🇱🇷 Liberia · FACE Africa

A Liberian-founded nonprofit builds wells, latrines and rainwater systems while training women-majority water committees across rural Liberia.

🇫🇷 France · Règles Élémentaires

Supermarket collection drives run by volunteers in towns across France feed a national stockpile of pads and tampons that goes to people who cannot afford them.

🇱🇷 Liberia · Champions for Nature Conservation Liberia (CNCL)

A Monrovia-based NGO pays residents by the kilogram to sort and hand over plastic waste before it clogs the wetlands that feed the city.

🇰🇭 Cambodia · Water For Cambodia

Water For Cambodia's Siem Reap team has built or renovated over 2,500 latrines, and in 2025 gave seven schools girl-friendly toilets with bins, locks and emergency period kits.

🇮🇳 India · Gram Vikas

A rural Odisha NGO refuses to install a single tap or toilet in a village until every household, rich or poor, agrees to join in and build them together.

🇭🇹 Haiti · Haiti Outreach

Instead of handing out toilets, Haiti Outreach's Haitian coaches get villagers around Hinche to dig and build their own latrines, with a 9-month push that began in June 2026.

🇯🇲 Jamaica · HerFlow Foundation

A Jamaican foundation that started by supplying three schools now reaches more than 300 schools, government homes and clinics with free period products and period education.

🇷🇼 Rwanda · Kosmotive

Kosmotive, founded in Kigali in 2014, sews reusable KosmoPads that its site says have prevented 7,200 tons of plastic waste.

🇳🇮 Nicaragua · blueEnergy

Since 2004, this off-grid engineering nonprofit has been wiring solar power and clean water into isolated Caribbean-coast Nicaraguan communities.

🇲🇱 Mali · Mali Red Cross (Croix-Rouge malienne)

In Mali's Mopti region the Red Cross acted when the Bani River passed 633 cm at Sofara, handing out sandbags and shovels and broadcasting warnings in Bamana and French before the floodwater peaked.

🇲🇳 Mongolia · Local Solutions

Where winter drops below -30C and the Mongolian word for toilet is itself taboo, Local Solutions has helped install 1,150 dry toilets and opened the country's first Toilet Education Center on World Toilet Day 2025.

🇲🇿 Mozambique · Mozambique Red Cross Society (Cruz Vermelha de Moçambique)

When Cyclone Gezani bore down on Inhambane in February 2026, Mozambican Red Cross volunteers were already reinforcing houses and schools with pre-positioned materials, days before the wind arrived.

🇸🇬 Singapore · World Toilet Organization

Founded by Jack Sim, known as Mr. Toilet, this Singapore nonprofit created World Toilet Day, later recognised by the UN General Assembly in 2013, and runs a World Toilet College that trained over 5,000 people in India in its first 24 months.

🇳🇵 Nepal · Nepal River Conservation Trust (NRCT)

Nepal's oldest river-conservation group, running weekly clean-ups and a 25-year-old festival to restore Kathmandu's sacred Bagmati River.

🇳🇮 Nicaragua · El Porvenir

In rural Nicaragua El Porvenir pairs every new piped water system with a double-pit latrine per household and hygiene lessons, so water and toilets arrive together.

🇳🇬 Nigeria · Pad-Up Creations

A factory in Minna, Niger State, stitches washable period kits that women sales agents now carry to 21 African countries.

🇵🇱 Poland · Fundacja Akcja Menstruacja

A foundation from Lubin stocks free menstrual product boxes in school toilets, and its schools programme now covers 1,044 schools across Poland.

🇬🇭 Ghana · Clean Team Ghana

Clean Team Ghana rents families in Kumasi a private in-home toilet and sends a Ghanaian crew to swap the sealed waste container for a clean one every week.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · River Action UK

A fast-growing charity is suing water companies and industrial chicken farms to rescue England's sewage- and slurry-choked rivers.

🇭🇹 Haiti · SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods)

Household container toilets in urban Haiti turn human waste into rich agricultural compost through a circular sanitation economy.

🇺🇬 Uganda · SPOUTS International

A Kampala social enterprise fires clay into ceramic filters so Ugandan households can stop boiling water over smoky charcoal fires.

🇰🇪 Kenya · Sanergy

Social enterprise converting fecal sludge from Nairobi's informal settlements into organic fertilizer, insect protein and biogas.

🇸🇳 Senegal · DELVIC Sanitation Initiatives

DELVIC, a Senegalese company, manages faecal sludge treatment plants for the national sanitation office and runs a 24/7 emergency desludging call centre.

🇿🇦 South Africa · Save the Vaal Environment (SAVE)

A committee of Vaal River residents has spent three decades hauling South African officials to court to stop raw sewage from destroying the country's third-longest river.

🇵🇭 Philippines · Manila Water Foundation

Manila Water Foundation says it has led the installation of over 300 multi-faucet hand-hygiene stations in Philippine schools and public institutions, many with ten taps so a whole class can wash at once.

🇮🇳 India · People United for Better Living in Calcutta (PUBLIC)

Kolkata's sewage is cleaned for free by fishponds its own fisherfolk built — and the only reason those ponds still exist is a public interest case filed in 1992.

🇺🇸 United States · Riverkeeper

The original riverkeeper patrol boat that inspired a global movement still hunts down pollution on the Hudson and safeguards drinking water for millions of New Yorkers.

🌍 Global · Water.org

Matt Damon and Gary White's nonprofit unlocking safe water and sanitation through small, affordable WaterCredit loans.