Aisha: “One of the major lessons that I learned from AKU is that you train the community, not the individual. AKU teaches you to respect your patients and their community, and pay attention to culture before intervening with any healthcare intervention, and that is key.”

In 2015, Shanti Devi constructed a toilet for her family of eight. Prior to that, she – like most of her neighbours in Muzaffarpur (Bihar, India) – had never had access to a toilet in her life. Since then, Shanti has made it her mission to help other families to understand the importance of safe sanitation and the way to go about building affordable toilets for themselves.