Better education through sanitation.
Imagine a world where all students have safe access to sustainable sanitation. That is our vision.
By working together, we know we can get there.
OUR PURPOSE
Toilets for All is a Swiss foundation which contributes to closing the huge gap in access to clean and dignified toilets for the world’s population (SDG 6.2), focusing on schools.
We aim to achieve this goal through different collaborative actions, acting as an enabler for both entrepreneurs and funders, but also legislative organisations, select communities and government bodies, and focusing on the sector of circular off-grid sanitation for schools and related hygiene efforts.
We believe that is where the highest impact can be made, with the greatest knock-on effect on other SDGs. An amazing 130 of 169 UN SDG targets have synergies with sanitation, find out more here.
We work with entrepreneurs, foundations, industry organisations and legislative bodies to help us create access to safe sanitation for all students and schools.
Together we can achieve safe toilets for all.
BOARD MEMBERS
Anne Mosseri-Marlio
Anne is the Chair of the Board of Directors of Toilets for All. She is passionate about art, the environment and social justice. For over twelve years she has run Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie which presented post-minimal, conceptual and geometric abstraction paintings & sculptures and is now pivoting to focus on a few artists. Whenever possible, she goes to the mountains for walks and downhill skiing.
Madeleine Cuff
Madeleine is environment reporter for the i paper, a national daily paper in the UK. She has more than five years experience writing about climate change, green technologies and sustainable business. She has also spent three years as a trend forecaster, with a particular focus on sustainability. As a reporter, she is particularly interested in low-carbon development, climate politics and biodiversity loss. And when she is not staring at a screen, you’ll find her making a mess in the kitchen or hiking up the nearest hill.
SECRETARY OF THE BOARD
Claudia Vogelbach
Claudia is an intensive care nurse, mother, art and sports lover with a great interest in cooking, travel. She practised in various hospitals in Switzerland. Her background in healthcare and travels throughout Africa, in addition to raising 4 children, help her evaluate sanitation projects. Her smile and pragmatism are contageous.
Reto Wey
Reto is the Secretary of Toilets for All. His passion is discovering the New in the fields of finance and impact investing, social entrepreneurship, the circular economy, sanitation economy and the art world to come up with surprising new ways to provide basic services to the bottom of the pyramid and investing in them as Angel Investor and throughout Toilets for All to reach the SDG, especially SDG 6 for water and sanitation
THE CHALLENGE
Almost 4 billion people and 700 mio. students are without access to safely managed sanitation.
The consequences are grave.
Sanitation is in a global crisis. Today, almost 4 billion people lack access to safely managed sanitation services. 1 in 3 people do not have access to a safe toilet (2.5 billion people). The consequences are spreading disease, high child mortality rates, and environmental contamination through waterways.
The lack of access to improved sanitation costs countries up to 1.5% of their GDP annually (economic losses from deaths, health care treatment, lost time and productivity, increased access time to sanitation facilities) and many lost opportunities to preserve the environment.
Add to this the detrimental impact on personal safety, equality, dignity and general well-being, as well as immense knock-on effect on local communities’ possibilities for self-sufficiency and economic security that this vast lack of safe, sustainable sanitation has.
BUT THERE ARE SOLUTIONS:
OUR PARTNERS
Engagement
As a small team with extensive experience, we focus on validating ideas and systems, contributing with knowledge and methods, and bringing together and enabling others to implement systems at scale.
ENTREPRENEURS
We support individual promising sanitation entrepreneurs and toilet enterprises to develop their business model and scale it through different modalities (expansion, licensing, franchising, shareware), support conference attendance and cover other enabling costs.
MEMBERS OF:
FUNDERS
We partner with other foundations, philanthropists, corporate organisations, as well as public fundraising campaigns, to raise funds for specific communities, scaling efforts or promising enterprises, to create direct impact on SDG 6.2.
INSTITUTIONS
As advisors, we participate in roundtables, meetings with government and international bodies, driving the agenda for sanitation legislation and ensuring that goal 6.2 is supported from all possible angles and with a workable legislative framework.
Emergency Architecture and
Human Rights
SUPPORTED BY DIFFERENT FOUNDATIONS AND MANY PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS:
For more information on collaboration and engagement, please get in touch here.
OUR MOTIVATION
“Why Toilets for All?”
“When you want to create impact at scale, it’s imperative to choose an area that can be impacted through a simple, widely suitable, resource-effective technology. But also one that has a large, positive knock-on effect on other critical challenges. Waterless toilets do exactly that.”
Improved sanitation services underpin many other global goals beyond the core SDG 6 covering WASH (Water, sanitation and hygiene).
These include improving health (SDG 3), raising school attendance for teenage girls as a result of better sanitation in schools (SDG 4 + 5), generating jobs (SDG 8), increasing resilience to climate change thanks to the creation of sustainable energy (SDG 7 + 13).
To read more about all the core and secondary impacts of container-based, waterless toilets on the UN SDGs, read the full article here.
Our goals
The goal of the foundation is to work with others to create safe access to sustainable sanitation solutions for students and schools, people, leaving no one behind.
We aim to achieve this by:
Raising awareness of the huge sanitation crisis with almost 4.0 billion people lacking access to safely managed sanitation.
Supporting promising solutions and approaches in scaling to reach more people.
Sharing best practice and new approaches.
Working with entrepreneurs, governments, universities and industry associations.
