Sanitation
Artificial wetlands in Peru provide sustainable sanitation, safer water, and community-led economic opportunities.
Fuller Cruzado grew up in rural Peru, where using a bathroom was often uncomfortable. Rather than accept it, he set out to change the experience. He founded Brixsan, a local business that develops biological solutions. With support from Water For People, entrepreneurs like Fuller are bringing new sanitation solutions to rural communities.
For Grace, every day at the Nghambi Health Clinic in Mpwapwa District, she balanced risk and necessity – treating patients while lacking access to both running water and proper sanitation. As…
Picture a classroom with empty desks because children are walking for water instead of learning. Tumaini has seen this for years, and she is ready for it to change. …
Meet Lennie, a passionate young woman whose journey with Water For People began in 2015, when she was only 11 years old. That was the year Water For People built bathrooms, handwashing facilities, and menstrual hygiene management units to support students’ sanitation and hygiene needs at Lennie’s school, Chilomoni Primary.
In rural Honduras, there aren’t sewage systems – a health and environmental risk. Sixto created a business to solve this sanitation problem.
Avelino turned his construction skills into more than a job – he’s become a sanitation champion in his Guatemalan community. What started as a way to support his family has grown into a mission to improve health and opportunity one bathroom at a time – and a thriving business that meets a real need.
For Prisca, hygiene has changed everything. A mother of five, Pricsa lives in the Misanjo village in southern Malawi. She introduces herself with a huge smile. She is proud of her role in the community and the story she has to tell.
Dry and rough to the touch, Don Guillermo’s hands tell stories of sacrifice, hard work, and pride. With a shovel gripped tightly, and a smile across his face, the 66-year-old is determined to build his family a toilet.
Dharanidhar Kumar has always been known as “DK” to his friends. But now he has a new nickname – The Toilet Seller.