A big day for @SanFirstIndia & @TheCycleINGO ! Bhoomi Puja at Veeracholan & Peraiyur schools in TN for new toilet blocks & Terrafil water filters, with support from @EAFoundation & @SavillsIM.

It's a wrap! Over 1000 sanitation workers across six blocks in Tiruvannamalai trained on safety, hygiene, substance abuse awareness & health-seeking behavior. Thanks to @TheCycleINGO and @rishab_ias for the support! 👏 #SanitationFirst #CommunityHealth #HygieneAwareness

What a lovely morning it was in Masimanagar, Mamallapuram when the tribal women and girls who had never had access to toilets in their community before came together to celebrate the opening of the women's WASH complex comprising of bathrooms, toilets, exclusive toilet for those with special needs, clothes washing area, napkin change room attached to incinerator and ample hand washing facilities that @SanFirstIndia built with support from @EnergyAspects foundation and @TheCycleINGO. @DavidAtTheCycle and Ms Valarmathi Yasvanthrao, Chairman, Mamallapuram Town Panchayat inaugurated the complex and felicitated the members of the women's WASH committee formed for the O & M of the facility.

This morning, Mr D Raman, CEO, Virudhunagar district, inaugurated the new boys toilet block at P.Pudhupatti village of Kariapatti block along with @DavidAtTheCycle, Co-founder. @SanFirstIndia had built the block with support from @TheCycleINGO . Earlier, David also inaugurated the fully renovated anganwadi at Valayankulam.

@SanFirstIndia build rooftop rainwater harvesting systems with recharge wells in Govt schools with support from @TheCycleINGO. This afternoon, Co-founder @DavidAtTheCycle visited the unit at Govt High School, Sithalapakkam where the unit now caters to all the washing requirements in the kitchen and dining areas

Such a pleasure to meet the wonderful @tspadmapriya, congrats to you and @TheCycleINGO on a great event yesterday, brilliant to hear the latest on your activities beyond pioneering CBS in Asia, keep up the good work and see you in Jo'burg!

Pleasantly exhausted at the end of an amazing event this afternoon at the offices of Savills, one of our key donors in the UK. Our supporters individual & corporate, some of whom had done most adventurous tasks to raise money for us, were with us to understand more about the whole range of projects in India. This being the 25th year of Sanitation First which is now @TheCycleINGO in the UK, it was an occasion of gratitude and an opportunity for ongoing support 💖✨🙏🧿🧿🧿

@SanFirstIndia is constructing a women's hygiene complex for 105 tribal families in Masimanagar, Chengalpattu Dt with support from @EnergyAspects Foundation & @TheCycleINGO. A Women's WASH committee is being formed among the users who have not used a toilet before, to train them on valuing toilets, personal & menstrual hygiene, peer monitoring of WIP & O & M. @rnadh

Thanks to @EnergyAspects Foundation for this lovely blog on their recent visit to projects funded in India through @SanFirstUK & @SanFirstIndia. We are indeed blessed to have donors who see us as partners in development! Kudos to our committed India team! ea-foundation.org.uk/experie…

This morning we @SanFirstIndia visited the GHSS Mamallapuram and Padur PHC where @EnergyAspects foundation had helped build toilet blocks and birthing unit with the EAF team and @SanFirstUK co-founder @DavidSanFirst. The children received Happy Periods training and reusable pads

It is always a joy to go back to the birthing unit that @SanFirstIndia constructed with support from @EnergyAspects at Padur PHC. Today was extra special as we met some of the babies born there. Our first-born Bragadeesh is ten months old & our newest born 2 days ago @SanFirstUK

Welcoming Whitman Barrett, PhD student from Cornell University USA to work with the Sanitation First India team on the Cornell -TNAU-SF research project on the use of Ecosan compost, urine and biochar in agriculture! @tspadmapriya @SanFirstUK

Received the signed MoU for the @Cornell University, USA, TNAU & @SanFirstIndia research project on use of compost, urine and biochar as agricultural inputs, from the HoD, Environmental Sciences Dept TNAU this evening. @SanFirstUK Another exciting project begins!!

Exams are over and our work begins! Commencement of brand new toilet blocks by @SanFirstIndia for girls and boys at the Government Higher Secondary School, Poonjeri, Mamallapuram with support from @SanFirstUK & @EnergyAspects Foundation, UK!

@MHDay28May @tspadmapriya @albyjohnV @TiruvallurCollr @OVK007 @JayakumarV @SanFirstUK #MHDay2022

Sanitation First India is hiring for the role of Communications Executive in Chennai. Do check out the role profile here : devnetjobsindia.org/jobdescr…

Schools have reopened and SFI team is back in action training children at ADW schools of Villupuram district. This morning over 250 students learnt all about adolescence, puberty and menstruation. They also received sustainable hygiene kits thanks to The Cycle (SFUK)

SFI built the first ever Ecosan toilet block in a Govt High school, Mathuranthakanallur, in 2005 which was in full use until it got damaged during lockdown. Work in progress to bring it back to use. Images from 2005, 2012 and the work going on now.... #sustainablesanitation

SFI's hand wash units were inaugurated yesterday by Project Officer Selvakumar S at Rangarajapuram & MGR Nagar schools, who were also provided with soap and dispenser supplies to be topped up over a year.Thanks to our donor St James Place Charitable Foundation & @SanFirstUK

.@Women_and_Girls