IMPACT

  • A summary….

Age and Team

  • More than 15 years of existence! (Formally registered as a charity Trust in 2006 under the Indian Trust Act 1882)
  • 10 core members; 6 active in Village Rural Lab; 4 active in Centre for Circular Economy.
  • Student interns – normally 3 – 8 at any time

Innovations created by the FIN community (professional volunteers, students, Rural lab staff and Kameswaram village artisans)

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Sanitation & Waste management in Kameswaram village

  • 364 Ecosan toilets for individual households
  • 30 Toilets with septic tanks
  • 2 Community toilet complexes
  • 1 bathroom
  • 1 community washbasin system
  • 21 Rural Masons Trained
  • 2 Toilet Beauty Contests
  • 1 Masons Innovation Contest
  •  34 Public waste bins constructed and distributed
  • 200 Household waste tins
  • Had door to door collection system in village before government took over

 

 Community Engagement in village 

  • 3 Bus-stops beautified – with public waste bins, motivational messages, art and emergency telephone numbers;
  • Beach Trash Walks (On average 2 to 3 times every year)
  • Normally one workshop per month – also focussing on vulnerable groups – elderly, disabled in the village;

 

 

 

COVID Responses

  • 10,000 masks distributed via ration shops
  • Education campaigns for observation of hygiene behaviour
  • Education campaigns for vaccination

 

Training

  • Training:- 224 Internships (145 international students and 79 Indian students) – as of December 28, 2023
  • International training for 9 quiz masters from 4 countries for World Toilet Day in 2020
  • Skilling Programmes with two corporates
  • 5 student dissertations in collaboration with the academic institute

Events outside of Kameswaram village     as of December 2023

  • 8 International webinars
  • 7 student webinars
  • 2 onsite conferences
  • 2 onsite workshops

 

 Research & Advocacy as of December 2023

  • International campaign for social distancing to contain COVID-19 contamination (2020) in 16 languages – English, 5 Indian and 10 other languages of Europe and Africa
  • 7 Sponsored Research Projects on Sanitation and hygiene
  • 7 Peer reviewed international publications; 2 book chapter on lessons and 11 articles published by institutes/agencies/international newspapers/international magazines on insights from the FIN experience
  • 94 videos 
  • 7 event recordings as videos

Manuals

  • Building a toilet with an attached septic tank
  • Building an ecosan toilet