Over one billion non-compostable sanitary pads reach India's overburdened and old sewage systems every month, also landfills, open fields and water bodies. Quality sanitary pads are...
This 12-year-old girl from Jamshedpur has taken a step towards making her state, Jharkhand, open defecation free. She is not only building toilets but is using...
This year, on the occasion of Ganga Saptami on May 2, Ganga Swachhta Sankalp Divas was observed in Uttar Pradesh to spread awareness about cleanliness of...
From a pregnant woman digging up pits for toilets to a trained lady mason leading from the front to make her village and other villages in...
Almost half a billion Indians defecate in the open, out of which about 300 million women and girls in India have no access to the most...
'No Toilet, No Bride' - That's the mantra, 1200 villagers from 110 villages across Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh are following to fight the age-old problem...
Meet Ashish and Ruta Kalawar, Electronic Engineers who left their well-paying jobs in England only because they wanted to transform Indian villages and turn them into...
According to the Swachhta Status Report by the National Sample Survey (NSS) Office, more than half the rural population of the country still opts to defecate...
At 105, Kunwar Bai is probably one of the oldest women in India today, but what makes her story even more incredible is that, for more...
Sachin Tendulkar, who had adopted Andhra Pradesh village Puttamrajuvari Kandriga in 2014, said he was happy that the place had undergone complete transformation and was "Open...
Marta, who grew up in Boston and volunteers with the Rajiv Gandhi Mahila Vikas Pariyojana, is helping India overcome the problem of open defecation by giving...
It’s tough for a 65-year-old Mohanakumar to believe that his house on a 5-cent land in rural Thiruvananthapuram – now has a toilet. For years he...
In the Swachhta (cleanliness) Survey conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), Jharkhand was cited as the worst state in the country as far as...
Religious places across India are clean from the inside, but quite filthy from the outside, says Actor Gul Panag. Perhaps, that's because there's a severe shortage...