United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

What are the United Nations 'Sustainable Development Goals'?

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal set of goals agreed by United Nations member states with the aim of ending poverty, protecting the planet and ensuring prosperity for all by 2030. Each goal has specific targets to reach by 2030. For the goals to be reached, everyone needs to do their part: governments, the private sector, civil society, and the public.

Just a Drop's clean safe water, sanitation and hygiene projects directly contribute to SDG 6:

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.

Since 1998, Just a Drop has brought safe water, sanitation and hygiene projects to over 1.9 million people in 32 countries around the world.

We work at a grassroots level with communities to identify the best water and sanitation solutions for their needs, such as rainwater harvesting systems, sand dams or drilled wells. All of our projects are community owned and led, and are monitored for years after completion. Find out more about our solutions or learn about our approach, based on the values of community, sustainability, quality, and impact.

Click on the icon to find out SDG 6's targets.

Just a Drop’s work impacts a further eleven SDGs

Click on an icon below to find out its targets and how our work contributes towards them.

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Meet the Team

Get to know who we are
What We Do

We work at a grassroots level to support communities around the world with access to sustainable safe water solution, sanitation facilities and knowledge of safe hygiene practices: such as through the construction of wells, pipelines, sand dams, rainwater harvesting systems and latrines, and hygiene and sanitation programmes.
Projects

Map showing our clean water, sanitation and hygiene projects across the world.
Why Water?

With clean water, communities can begin to lift themselves out of poverty and build brighter futures. Drinking dirty water can make people sick. That’s just part of the picture. A lack of clean water and sanitation holds back development and makes it harder for communities to escape the poverty trap.
Our Approach

We believe everyone, everywhere, should have access to clean water as a basic right. We want to see a world where everyone has clean water and adequate sanitation, and the increased health and prosperity this brings. Our approach is to support marginalised people across the world through community-led development, rather than aid; and to focus on sustainability and quality, ensuring a project's transformative impact is felt for decades to come.
Kenya
Solutions
In Memory of Anaïs Lydia Martine Del Maestro
Radisson Hotel Group

Radisson Hotel Group has partnered with Just a Drop to help give children around the world access to safe drinking water through the towel re-use programme. Guests are asked to reuse their towels and forego housekeeping. For every towel reused, Radisson Hotel Group make a donation to Just a Drop. Over 24,000 people across Just a Drop projects in Kenya, Nicaragua, Peru and India now have access to safe water thanks to this initiative.
But why can't people just move closer to water?

Just a Drop launched our the longest Twitter thread ever for World Water Day - following in the footsteps on Ann a 32-year-old Kenyan mother who is forced to walk 9km every day to collect water. But we were surprised to see that there seemed to be one common question: “But why don’t people move closer to the water?”