Centre for Water, Sanitation and Health for Women is a voluntary, non-profit, pan India, social organization, registered under the Societies Registration Act No. XXI of 1860 of Delhi in November 2014, working towards meeting the basic needs of safe drinking water and sanitation facilities for the health and well-being of society, girls and women in particular, in urban as well as rural areas of the country. We are also registered under 12A and 80G and Niti Ayog and for CSR funding.
In keeping with the flagship programme of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on India’s Independence Day 2014, the society aims to make India clean and open-defecation free by constructing or get constructed toilets in individual houses as well as in public places, to provide privacy and dignity to women and girls.
The organization was appointed as a Franchise by a public sector undertaking under Ministry of Health, Government of India, in 2015, for purchase and sale of their sanitary napkin vending machines and incinerators. Since then, for easy, affordable and practical solutions to many problems of personal feminine hygiene and health of girls and to promote safe sanitation, it has installed and maintained sanitary napkin vending machines and incinerators in schools and colleges and provided hygienic sanitary napkins as well in different states of north India. The organization has also conducted training workshops on feminine hygiene in colleges.
The society was empanelled as a Key Resource Centre under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) /SBM-(G) or Clean India Mission (Rural), by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Government of India in 2017. It was appointed as a third party agency by Govt. of Uttar Pradesh, under the government’s Clean India Mission (Rural) program to verify and evaluate toilets constructed in rural areas of Gautam Buddh Nagar in the state adjacent to Delhi.
Under SBM(G), Govt. of Uttar Pradesh, CWSHW conducted two training programs of Swachhagrahis or Rural Sanitation Workers in Gorakhpur in the state of Uttar Pradesh in February 2018, with qualified and experienced teams of dedicated professionals, trainers and consultants, to motivate villagers and bring about a behavioral change of people in rural areas towards using toilets and ending the practice of open-defecation. Fifteen Five day Training program on Community Approaches to Sanitation were organized in February- March 2019 in Sawaiya Madhavpur and Dholpur districts in Rajasthan
To bring about awareness about safe drinking water and hand-washing practices amongst students in schools, cartoons, movies, drawing and painting competitions, etc. were organised by the society in different schools in Delhi. The children would also act as change-agents in society. Some schools in rural areas were inspected to check availability of toilets in the premises and their condition if they existed.
As lack of safe drinking water impacts the health of the family, The organisation carried out surveys in few slums of Delhi to check availability of water and its quality. It held awareness programs for women to train them in different methods of obtaining safe drinking water at the household level for better health of the community.
Camps for collection of clothes were organized in March 2017 and also in 2019 and 2022 during Christmas Carnivals in Greater Kailash-II in New Delhi and were then distributed among the destitute, sick, invalid and the abandoned people residing in Earth Saviors asylum.
Our Goals
Our Mission
Centre for Water, Sanitation and Health for Women aims to bring clean and safe drinking water to people, protect public health and the environment by promoting sanitation, hygiene and empowering women by educating them on Menstrual Hygiene and Health.
Our Vision
Our vision is to help communities gain access to clean and safe drinking water and sanitation facilities; address all aspects of WASH including menstrual hygiene for women and adolescent girls.