Bindeshwar Pathak
FounderFounder of Sulabh International
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Bindeshwar Pathak is the founder of Sulabh International (1970)[1], an Indian non-profit working on water & sanitation, human rights and livelihood from New Delhi.
Sulabh International
Founded by Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, Sulabh International is a social service organisation known for its low-cost sanitation movement. It reports operating over 10,746 public toilet complexes used by 20 million people daily, and rehabilitating around 200,000 manual scavengers into mainstream society.
Sulabh International reports the following, on its own site:
- Over 20 million people use Sulabh facilities every single day
- 1.69M+ household toilets and 10,746+ public toilet complexes built
- 200K+ manual scavengers liberated and rehabilitated into mainstream society
- 55 years of public service; NGO in General Consultative Status with the UN Economic & Social Council
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- New Delhi
- Founded
- 1970
- Press
- 5
References
- [1] “Founded in 1970 by Dr Bindeshwar Pathak, Sulabh's contribution in the field of sanitation is both monumental in scale and historical in its application of human rights framing to sanitation.” — Sulabh International. Source
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