About Us

Since its inception, one of the key focus areas of SISASSS has been to address the issues of stigma and culture of silence around periods at the grassroots level. It has set up Sulabh Sanitation Club to promote menstrual hygiene management amongst adolescents and school children. In line with SDG 6, adolescent girls in both urban, rural and remote areas are trained and made aware about the importance of MHM in the major domain of a girl’s life like in schools, home, community and in public places.

So far 174 clubs in 20 states of India, six in Nepal and Bhutan and one in South Africa have been set up.

About 12,300 school children in more than 800 schools have been trained in school sanitation and menstrual hygiene management.

The sanitation clubs periodically organise workshops and training sessions. Even during the Covid 19 period, when the supply of sanitary towels to poorer communities were disrupted, volunteers were mobilised to distribute free pads and impart capacity building and awareness training to women and girls living in slums and in remote areas. It also organised post-disaster relief camp in the remote area of Sundarbans, West Bengal that was devastated by cyclone Amphan. It extensively trained women on how to build resilience and take care of their health, especially menstrual hygiene.

Established in 1992, Sulabh Public school has provided English medium education to nearly 10000 students. In line with SDG target 4.1 school provides free education to children who come from underprivileged and poorer backgrounds, whilst a nominal fee is charged from those who belong to the general category. Designed for school-to-work transition, children are trained on a number of skill development programmes alongside formal education. 100 % of the school graduates have been able to find employment to support their families through this education programme.

In 2020, when the school life was severely disrupted because of the Covid 19, Boeing India supported our cause by providing a grant of $100000. This significant gesture will go a long way in helping the school and children to see through the Covid-19 crisis and reinforce our commitment to provide high-quality education to the needy children and ensuring all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes.

The SISASSS has been providing technical and vocational education and training – which lasts anywhere from six months to three years – that gives young people, especially women, the skills to compete for better-paying jobs. Women and men of various age groups are trained across skills like beauty care, IT, stenography, sewing technology, electrical apprenticeship, cutting and tailoring and fashion designing. In line with SDG, 4.3 our skill development programmes are designed to ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university.

The agenda behind the SISASSS program is to provide vocational training in areas that can help the youth to be self-reliant, promote entrepreneurship. Such programs are also designed to create skilled and trained manpower so that all youth and adults, especially girls and women, can acquire relevant knowledge, skills and competencies for decent work and life (SDG 4.4)

The organization has experience in supporting interventions for community-level awareness generation to achieve demand creation for increased sanitation coverage, designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating many projects. It has done surveys, data management and awareness campaigns on community health, sanitation management, safe drinking water and waste management, particularly plastics waste, through in-house programmes as well as under several governments and private sector programmes.

Apart from the routine work mentioned above, during the period 2019-20, sanitation projects funded by CSR funds of a number of companies were carried out, such as Boeing India, Veolia, France, Bata India Ltd., GE Electrical Private Ltd. These works consisted of construction of household and school toilets.

In 2012, SISASSS stepped in (at the behest of India’s Supreme Court) to provide care services for the widows of Vrindavan and Varanasi, who were shunned by their families and were impoverished and neglected. This intervention transformed the living conditions of the widows bringing them security, solace and joy during their old age.

SISASSS has now taken over the programme and has introduced vocational training for elderly women to keep them occupied. In 2020, our efforts received further boost with the support of celebrity chef Vikas Khanna, the Global Goodwill Ambassador for Widows who provided nutritious food to the widows.