In India…
…rapid progress in ending open defecation has been achieved. However, extreme climate events and poverty remain significant challenges in reaching the SGD6 of sanitation for all. Over 100,000 children still die each year of preventable diarrhoeal diseases in the country. FINISH Mondial India started in 2009 and successfully built a local ecosystem to deliver sanitation services on a large scale. The track record under the Indian FINISH Society programme has laid the foundation for the current FINISH Mondial 6-country programme.
What we’ve achieved
since 2009
1.8 million
sanitation systems constructed through FINISH facilitation
9 million
people leading healthier lives
435 million
euros mobilised for investment in safe sanitation
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Column: Investing in WCs does not stink
During the recent heat wave in the Netherlands, there were calls to cut water consumption and even limit flushing
The poop to prosperity story by Chander Mahadev
The greywater treatment project in the Nilgiri district of Tamil Nadu is called Securing Water For Food (SWFF). It has treated kitchen and bathroom water waste to recycle and release it to 25,000 acres of farmland in the Badaga community-dominated area of the Nilgiris. The farm produce from this US AID-funded project has shown a 15 percent increase in yield.
UP: Chandauli village sets a swachh milestone
VARANASI: It was a special Wednesday for the natives of Dahiya village of Imayatpur block of Chandauli. The village