We work to alleviate poverty by building life-saving eco-toilets We do this in two simple, yet fundamental ways: 1. By introducing sanitation and water facilities that create and maintain good health, thereby giving individuals the ability to hold down a job. 2. By providing the infrastructure for work. With these two in place, the poorest people in the world can work their own way out of poverty rather than receive continual and long-lasting subsidies. We are after independence, not dependence. Unbelievably, 2.6 billion people don’t have access to a toilet. Without toilets sewage pollutes drinking water spreading illness and disease. Those most affected are among the world’s poorest, often sick, unable to work or attend school, remaining trapped in a cycle of poverty. A child dies every 17 seconds from a sanitation-related illness – we’re working hard to change that. Since being established in 1997, we have changed the lives of over 50,000 people in India, Sierra Leone and Kenya. The simple act of building a toilet reduces pollution, disease and sickness, it creates healthy communities, promotes self-respect and dignity, and underpins education and livelihoods.