David Crosweller

.@metpoliceuk working for the people again…

What a lovely morning it was in Masimanagar, Mamallapuram when the tribal women and girls who had never had access to toilets in their community before came together to celebrate the opening of the women's WASH complex comprising of bathrooms, toilets, exclusive toilet for those with special needs, clothes washing area, napkin change room attached to incinerator and ample hand washing facilities that @SanFirstIndia built with support from @EnergyAspects foundation and @TheCycleINGO. @DavidAtTheCycle and Ms Valarmathi Yasvanthrao, Chairman, Mamallapuram Town Panchayat inaugurated the complex and felicitated the members of the women's WASH committee formed for the O & M of the facility.

This morning, Mr D Raman, CEO, Virudhunagar district, inaugurated the new boys toilet block at P.Pudhupatti village of Kariapatti block along with @DavidAtTheCycle, Co-founder. @SanFirstIndia had built the block with support from @TheCycleINGO . Earlier, David also inaugurated the fully renovated anganwadi at Valayankulam.

@SanFirstIndia build rooftop rainwater harvesting systems with recharge wells in Govt schools with support from @TheCycleINGO. This afternoon, Co-founder @DavidAtTheCycle visited the unit at Govt High School, Sithalapakkam where the unit now caters to all the washing requirements in the kitchen and dining areas

This morning we @SanFirstIndia visited the GHSS Mamallapuram and Padur PHC where @EnergyAspects foundation had helped build toilet blocks and birthing unit with the EAF team and @SanFirstUK co-founder @DavidSanFirst. The children received Happy Periods training and reusable pads

And that's @SanFirstIndia's massive beauty ready to roll out in the next couple of weeks with support from @SavillsIM. The two-storied toilet block at GHSS Vadalur Pudhunagar along with seperate CWSN and teachers' toilets. @SanFirstUK

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.@pritipatel would have been sent to Rwanda

.@nadhimzahawi how can you tell so many lies? It’s easy because you belong to the @Conservatives

Welcoming Whitman Barrett, PhD student from Cornell University USA to work with the Sanitation First India team on the Cornell -TNAU-SF research project on the use of Ecosan compost, urine and biochar in agriculture! @tspadmapriya @SanFirstUK

@rosegeorge3 @MForstater And we have just completed surveying 8,015 Indian women to discover the extent of menstrual disorders in marginalised communities. Results in a couple of months! Hope you are well, and you mother has recovered.

@rosegeorge3 @MForstater I thought the figure of 23% came from India. It was a DASRA/Bank of America report, carried out in 2015, entitled Dignity for Her.

Oxfam bad stats 🤦🏻‍♀️ (Not sex and gender: this is what I used to work on before I got caught up in all of this, but the weakness of NGOs for a simplistic and misleading moral message is a theme)

Received the signed MoU for the @Cornell University, USA, TNAU & @SanFirstIndia research project on use of compost, urine and biochar as agricultural inputs, from the HoD, Environmental Sciences Dept TNAU this evening. @SanFirstUK Another exciting project begins!!

.@euronewsgreen @DoloresKatanich we have constructed circa 5,000 urine separating toilets in India…

A very happy and satisfying morning for SFI as @DavidSanFirst @tspadmapriya inaugurated the birthing unit at Padur PHC along with Dr Priya Raj, Deputy Director, Health Services, Kanchipuram, Block Medical Officer Dr Umadevi & the medical officers Drs Kanna Dinesh and Kannadasan.

A truly inspiring moment for us at SFI this morning at Madhuranthakanallur where we had built India's first Ecosan toilet seventeen years ago. The toilet that was fully in use had been damaged during the demolition of a nearby block which we were happy to repair.

A truly inspiring moment for us at @SanFirstIndia this morning at PUMS Madhuranthakanallur where we built the first ever school Ecosan seventeen years ago. The toilet that was fully in use had been damaged recently which we were happy to repair. @DavidSanFirst #WeAreTheCycle

The last of the training sessions for ADW schools in Villupuram was completed at Valudareddy this morning where 130 boys and girls with 8 teachers underwent training in adolescence, puberty & menstruation. A proud moment for Nisha Kesavan to train her science teacher in the batch

SFI built the first ever Ecosan toilet block in a Govt High school, Mathuranthakanallur, in 2005 which was in full use until it got damaged during lockdown. Work in progress to bring it back to use. Images from 2005, 2012 and the work going on now.... #sustainablesanitation

This is what @SanFirstIndia has been doing for years now!