Thanks to your support, we've reached over 165,753 people across Africa, Asia and Latin America with safe water, sanitation and hygiene in 2019, transforming lives. Check out our Highlights of 2019 here! Read more
Celebrated every year on the 19th November, World Toilet Day hopes to inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis. Read more
Read more about Fiona Jeffery OBE's journey with Just a Drop from founding in 1998, to reaching over 1.5 million people to date with access to safe water and sanitation Read more
We’ve been busy so far this autumn bringing safe water, sanitation and hygiene to communities around the world, all thanks to your support. Here are our autumn highlights! Read more
The roles played by women in society are increasingly visible. Pay parity, the ‘Me Too’ movement and recent high-profile sporting events including the Women's World Cup, and Netball World Cup, are all helping to champion women’s causes and raise awareness of key issues faced by women in society. In some parts of the world, where basic needs are often still being met, women are making themselves heard in different ways. Read more
India is aiming to become an open defecation free country by October 2019. Although the Indian Government is building toilets on a massive scale, the numbers don’t match the reality – toilets simply remain unused. Properly designed and constructed toilets with washrooms for women, together with the essential component of education around sanitation and hygiene practices, are key to making India an open defecation free country, says Jim Baldwin, Just a Drop’s Project Engineer for India Read more
We're pleased to share the news that we have completed our 300th project in Montegrande, Nicaragua! Thanks to your generous support, this spring we've been busy working with communities from Cambodia to Zambia to provide access to safe water and sanitation. Here are our spring highlights! Read more
Just a Drop's annual talk for 2019 'For the Love of Nature' saw the filmmakers behind epic Netflix series Our Planet and acclaimed BBC series Life, Planet Earth and The Hunt share the stories that have inspired them across their thirty years of wildlife filmmaking, from the jungles of Borneo to China's panda reserves and the Galapagos Islands... Read more
Just a Drop Founder Fiona Jeffery OBE reflects on her recent trip to Uganda to assess Just a Drop's impact and discover how our safe water and sanitation projects with communities, schools, and most recently with health centres, are creating changes which are transforming lives. Read more
Timothy, 39, is from Makueni County, Kenya. Just a Drop worked with Timothy's community to provide access to safe water through the construction of a sand dam. Sand dams raise the water table of the surrounding area, regenerating the land and enabling vegetation to grow. We caught up with Timothy to hear how the sand dam has supported the development of his successful farming and fruit growing business. Read more
Thanks to your support, this year we've been busy working with communities to deliver safe water, sanitation and hygiene to 83,000 people across Africa, Asia and Latin America - transforming lives. Thank you! Read more
In celebration of Just a Drop’s 20th anniversary, we spoke to four inspirational people who are doing their bit to change the world we live in for the better: Fiona Jeffery OBE, Founder of Just a Drop; Ben Morison, Founder of the Flipflopi Project; Paras Loomba, Founder of Global Himalayan Expedition; and Holly Budge, Founder of How Many Elephants, shared their experience of turning inspirational ideas into sustainable initiatives which are transforming lives. Read more