Stories Changing millions lives one step at a time through improved access to water, decent toilets and hygiene. All stories Case story Photo story Video story Solving Jallipetta's Water Shortage With A Single Tap "When I came to this village after my marriage, I used to collect water from an open well located a few kilometres from here. Gradually, the open wells dried up." Read the full story Case story It’s a hard life in India’s ‘Arsenic Belt’ Ten years ago, when 62-year-old Devanti Devi of Tilak Rai ka Hatha, a small village on the banks of the Ganges in Buxar district developed a couple of hard spots on her hands, she thought they would go away on their own. Read the full story Case story, Water, Girls and women, Hygiene The rural feminist of Buxar 43-year-old Rubi Singh is a familiar sight around water sources in the villages of Bhagalpur and Buxar in Bihar. A project worker with WaterAid India, her role is to generate awareness about clean drinking water in these communities. Read the full story Photo story Reforming Water and Sanitation in the Tribal Settlement of Brahmanandapuram Brahmanandapuram Thanda is one of the Gram Panchayats selected for intervention and implementation of the water development projects with the financial and technical support of WaterAid India and Amazon Web Services. Read the full story Case story, Periods A Far Way From Shame and Discomfort in Barnesbeg “When I look around me, I see girls feeling freer than they used to feel before,” says Kesang Lama, a part-time schoolteacher and peer educator. Read the full story Case story, Periods The Pad Maker of Lavatar Sheela’s pads reflect the compassion she has for her fellow women. They are soft, reusable and have quaint prints. Read the full story Case story, Periods The Breaker of Period Taboos in Barnesbeg’s Tea Gardens "I feel my biggest job has been to normalise talking about menstruation and reproductive health problems in my community!” Read the full story Case story, Toilets Of Human Dignity and Biodigester Tanks 39-year-old Pramit Subba recalls the nightmare of managing his household sewage himself and how things changed for his family. Read the full story Case story Making Barnesbeg Water Secure “It was tough but I realised how important this work was,” says 39-year-old construction and masonry worker Simon Rai. Read the full story Pagination Load more story articles
Solving Jallipetta's Water Shortage With A Single Tap "When I came to this village after my marriage, I used to collect water from an open well located a few kilometres from here. Gradually, the open wells dried up." Read the full story
Case story It’s a hard life in India’s ‘Arsenic Belt’ Ten years ago, when 62-year-old Devanti Devi of Tilak Rai ka Hatha, a small village on the banks of the Ganges in Buxar district developed a couple of hard spots on her hands, she thought they would go away on their own. Read the full story
Case story, Water, Girls and women, Hygiene The rural feminist of Buxar 43-year-old Rubi Singh is a familiar sight around water sources in the villages of Bhagalpur and Buxar in Bihar. A project worker with WaterAid India, her role is to generate awareness about clean drinking water in these communities. Read the full story
Photo story Reforming Water and Sanitation in the Tribal Settlement of Brahmanandapuram Brahmanandapuram Thanda is one of the Gram Panchayats selected for intervention and implementation of the water development projects with the financial and technical support of WaterAid India and Amazon Web Services. Read the full story
Case story, Periods A Far Way From Shame and Discomfort in Barnesbeg “When I look around me, I see girls feeling freer than they used to feel before,” says Kesang Lama, a part-time schoolteacher and peer educator. Read the full story
Case story, Periods The Pad Maker of Lavatar Sheela’s pads reflect the compassion she has for her fellow women. They are soft, reusable and have quaint prints. Read the full story
Case story, Periods The Breaker of Period Taboos in Barnesbeg’s Tea Gardens "I feel my biggest job has been to normalise talking about menstruation and reproductive health problems in my community!” Read the full story
Case story, Toilets Of Human Dignity and Biodigester Tanks 39-year-old Pramit Subba recalls the nightmare of managing his household sewage himself and how things changed for his family. Read the full story
Case story Making Barnesbeg Water Secure “It was tough but I realised how important this work was,” says 39-year-old construction and masonry worker Simon Rai. Read the full story
