Although education has long been recognised as a human right, there is so much more to schooling that putting children in front of a teacher.Creating a positive school environment should become a universal goal, as it plays a fundamental role in a child’s development...

A fundamental part of human life, soil is one of the earth’s most important reserves. Indeed, as 95% of the food we eat comes from the ground, soils are the basis of life. Yet all over the planet, the condition of our soil is declining at an alarming rate; so much so...

World Toilet Day falls on the 19th November, which is also a special day for our organisation, as it is also Dr Shunmuga Paramasivan's birthday. Dr Shunmuga Paramasivan has been working in sanitation for more than forty years, and we are very lucky to have him as an...

We are incredibly lucky to have a special, guest blog post this month, written by Anne Milne. Earlier this year, Anne and Gordon Milne visited some of our sanitation projects in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. They also opened our brand new ecosan toilet block at Periya...

Here at Sanitation First, we believe that our ecological ecosan models should be taking over the world of sanitation. We believe that more people knew about the world-changing, sustainable power of ecological sanitation.

In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly declared sanitation a universal human right. This means that everyone, everywhere, has the right to a toilet. Did you realise that through your last trip to the bathroom, you were actually exercising one of your fundamental...