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Maji Safi Group
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Red Feather Development Group
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Villageworx Inc
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Drink Local Drink Tap Inc
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Georgie Badiel Foundation Inc
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Pencils of Promise Incorporated
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Water for South Sudan Inc
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Torch Lake Protection Alliance
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Bellaire, MI
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Kwatekeh Africa Inc
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Wayland, MA
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El Porvenir
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Uryadis Village Inc
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Sandpoint, ID
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Water for Good
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Bentonville, AR
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What is a sanitation charity?
Sanitation charities work on the unglamorous half of public health: the directory above lists organizations building toilets and latrines, running hygiene programs, managing waste, and distributing hygiene products, and you can filter the results by country and size. GiveRadar applies the sanitation tag based on each organization's name, stated mission, and registry classification; it is never chosen or paid for by the charity itself. Many of these organizations also carry the UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 tag for clean water and sanitation.
A sanitation charity is a nonprofit that works to give people safe toilets, hygienic living conditions, and dignified ways to manage human and household waste. The cause sits next to clean water but is its own discipline: where water work is about supply, sanitation work is about containment, treatment, and behavior, from a household latrine to a city sewage system to a bar of soap in a school washroom. Organizations under this tag range from community groups promoting hygiene in a single district to international WASH charities running sanitation programs across many countries; charities focused mainly on drinking water supply are listed under water.
What do sanitation charities do?
Sanitation charities build and maintain the systems that keep human waste safely away from people, and teach the hygiene habits that make those systems work. Typical activities include:
- Building household latrines and shared toilet blocks, and upgrading unsafe pit toilets
- Installing sanitation facilities in schools and health clinics, including washrooms girls can actually use
- Fecal sludge management: safe emptying, transport, and treatment of what toilets collect
- Community-led programs that help villages end open defecation on their own terms
- Hygiene promotion: handwashing campaigns, soap access, menstrual health education
- Distributing hygiene products to people who cannot afford them, including period products and basic toiletries
- Waste collection and neighborhood sanitation services where municipal systems fall short
How to check a sanitation charity before you donate
Before donating to a sanitation charity, check whether it talks about what happens after construction: a toilet is infrastructure, and infrastructure fails without emptying, repairs, and someone responsible for both. Organizations that report on maintenance, local ownership, and behavior change alongside their build numbers are describing the whole job; filings that show recurring program spending rather than one-off construction pushes are the paper trail of that. A second check specific to this cause: many sanitation charities sell symbolic gifts, such as buying a toilet in someone's name, and these are almost always pooled donations that fund the wider program rather than one literal toilet, which is standard practice but worth understanding before you give. Each profile here shows registration details where available and filings where filed, plus an integrity assessment that scores disclosure alone, not how well the programs work. For the complete five-step walkthrough, see our guide for donors; any single organization can be looked up with the charity checker.
Common questions
What is a sanitation charity?
A sanitation charity is a nonprofit that helps people get safe toilets, hygienic conditions, and proper waste management. The cause covers latrine and toilet construction, sewage and fecal sludge treatment, hygiene education, and the distribution of hygiene products to people who cannot afford them. The filters at the top of the directory narrow these organizations by country and by size.
What is hygiene poverty?
Hygiene poverty means being unable to afford basic hygiene essentials such as soap, toothpaste, laundry products, or period products. It affects households in wealthy countries as well as poor ones, and the charities responding to it typically collect and distribute hygiene products through local partners such as schools, food banks, and community centers. Some organizations listed under this cause do exactly that work, alongside those building sanitation infrastructure abroad.
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