"This village has not seen a toilet since our ancestors moved and settled here. Since we don't have any open field that we can use for nature calls, before sunrise, we use our house terrace to attend nature calls and then dispose them outside our village. We come from a poor economic background, and toilets are a luxury for us. Thank you Sewa International for traveling miles to help us, thank you for building community toilets. We don't have words to express our gratitude. We are happy that our little girls don not have to go through what we have suffered for such a long time." 

-Durgaben, Baluva Village - Uttar Pradesh

"Unlike her friends, Saritha who is physically challenged, could not walk long distances to attend her nature calls. she is immensely thankful to Sewa's team for building her a toilet. She is also successful in influencing her family to use the toilet. Her orthodox mother-in-law, who strongly felt that a toilet in the vicinity of a house is unacceptable, now uses the toilet instead of defecating in the open field. We need strong women like Saritha, who will propagate our mission as help us built swatch and surakshit Bharath (clean and safe India)."

-Saritha

"Thank you Sewa International for providing toilets to our school. Now, we don't have to wait until we get home. We can concentrate on classes without worrying about taking a break to walk a long distance to attend nature calls in open fields, avoiding prying eyes. We are locking the toilets after every use, and we clean them by assigning cleaning duties among ourselves."

-Pushpa, Grade 9, Lucknow Government School