Established presence · Southern Africa

South Africa

Sanitation infrastructure and school-level hygiene education, through our partnership with Sulabh International.

Three visitors standing outside the entrance of Makhoarane Primary School
Makhoarane Primary School

Sanitation in South Africa

Infrastructure and school hygiene education

Through its partnership with Sulabh International (SICAS-SA), TGRF has helped deliver sanitation infrastructure and school-level hygiene education across South Africa. In October 2019, on Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary, an eco-friendly on-site disposal system was inaugurated at Phoenix Ashram, Durban, upgrading two toilet blocks — attended by Ela Gandhi, Granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, alongside government and consular officials.

The program has directly reached 75 schools across the Western Cape, Gauteng, and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, with sanitation learning materials and school sanitation clubs extending awareness to a further 1,350 schools across 7 provinces, in coordination with South Africa's Department of Education. The initiative also introduced the country's first "Pay & Use" public convenience, launched in Cape Town.

Partner
Sulabh International (SICAS-SA)
Provinces
Western Cape, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal
Schools
75 reached directly; a further 1,350 across 7 provinces
First of its kind
South Africa's first "Pay & Use" public convenience, Cape Town

Gallery

School toilets across South Africa

A school toilet block

2 photographs

  • A completed school toilet block with separate entrances for girls, boys and staff, and a planted bed in front
    Separate entrances for girls, boys and staff
  • Concrete covers over the on-site disposal pits alongside the toilet block, with hills beyond
    On-site disposal pits beside the block

School toilets in Durban

KwaZulu-Natal · 3 photographs

  • School staff, pupils in uniform and visitors standing together in a school corridor in Durban
    Staff, pupils and visitors at the school
  • A pupil washing her hands at a row of basins beside the toilet cubicles
    Handwashing at the basins
  • Two people standing either side of the facility plaque on a blue school wall
    The facility plaque

School toilets in Johannesburg

Gauteng · 5 photographs

  • The painted front of Malerato Primary School, with bricks stacked outside for building work
    Malerato Primary School
  • Dark toilet cubicle partitions against tiled and red-painted walls
    Toilet cubicles
  • A tiled corridor running past a row of toilet cubicles
    The cubicle corridor
  • Inside the ablution block: cubicles on one side, urinals and a steel handwashing trough on the other
    Cubicles, urinals and trough
  • A woman inspecting the taps above a steel handwashing trough
    Checking the handwashing trough

School toilets in Makhoarane

6 photographs

  • Three visitors standing outside the entrance of Makhoarane Primary School
    Makhoarane Primary School
  • School staff and visitors standing together in the school office
    Meeting the school team
  • A line of pupils in school uniform holding up their drawings, with two adults among them
    Pupils with their hygiene drawings
  • Visitors and staff talking inside the school toilets, beside a row of basins
    Looking over the facilities
  • Three women smiling as they walk between the basins and the toilet cubicles
    Inside the school toilets
  • Numbered hygiene posters on a cubicle wall, with two visitors in the corridor
    Hygiene posters on the cubicle wall

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