High Quality Sanitation for Everyone Everywhere
Need for high quality shared sanitation in India
SHRI believes that everyone has the right to access high-quality sanitation services everywhere they live, work, and go to school. Unfortunately, this is not a reality for over 238 million people, who are forced to defecate in the open because they lack access to a household toilet. Further, adequate sanitation is not available for millions of children (0-6 years) at anganwadi centers, children (6-14 years) at schools and men/women at health facilities in India.
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2.15 M
Total Uses
0.04 USD
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Our Vision
SHRI provides high-quality sanitation services, for everyone, everywhere in India, to uphold the human right to sanitation.
SHRI is committed to providing a preferential sanitation option for India’s poorest and most marginalized communities, and are driven by the fact that their right to this basic infrastructure should be guaranteed. We work towards this goal by improving access to high-quality community and institutional sanitation facilities. Our approach of pragmatic solidarity calls for the coupling of immediate action that is required to alleviate suffering today with efforts aimed at addressing the root causes of unjust outcomes. Furthermore, we believe that this approach will allow us to more quickly scale high-quality sanitation services to the millions of women, children, and men in India who currently lack quality sanitation services in community and institutional facilities. Finally, central to this approach are the people we hire who come from the communities we serve. We firmly believe that the women and men from the communities we serve are best equipped to do this work. Strengthening local capacities by developing a workforce trained to address India’s ongoing sanitation challenges is central to our approach.