Background

We began our work in 1997 when we started providing humanitarian aid to those in need, and became a registered charity in 1998. From our work over the following eight years we began to identify that the underlying problem keeping people in poverty was ill-health due to a lack of sanitation and water facilities.

With this knowledge, we feel our real work started in 2005 when we were introduced to something that fitted our belief structure; a long-term sustainable solution to poverty called ecological sanitation or ecosan for short. Since then our focus has remained on providing ecosan, clean water and livelihood programmes in a manner that allows people to work their own way out poverty.