toilet

A toilet that uses no water is the solution to water shortage and open defecation in rural India. It is the need of the hour.

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.

Lonwadi is a small village in the Yavatmal district of Maharashtra. This backward village has made great progress, thanks to the patronage of one trust. But the villagers still lack one basic amenity - the toilet!

"I wish there was a toilet in my house too. I am 16 years old now and I feel shy about going to the jungle."

In an endevour to end open defecation TBI launches a campaign to raise funds to build toilets for Lonvadi, a village located 50 kms from Nasik, Maharashtra.

As Kerala makes headway in becoming 'open defecation-free’, agents of change in the state assume a critical role in the mission.

Feeling upset and humiliated at having to regularly defecate in the open, six school girls from Bihar have renounced wearing gold jewellery until their parents build toilets in their homes.

A brother and sister from Madhya Pradesh have put together every penny they could, including their scholarship money and pocket money, to build a toilet for a girl's school in Narsingpur district.

Four students living in the Nagapattinam District of Tamil Nadu crowdfunded money from their classmates to build a toilet for their friend who did not have this facility at home.

A 16-year-old girl, whose father refused to build a toilet for her and her mother, received a surprise gift from panchayat officials who built her a toilet in one day.