★ Rotary area of focus

Providing clean water.

Rotary brings safe water, toilets and hygiene education to communities that lack them, and helps them keep those services running.

Rotary International: Providing clean water, sanitation and hygiene What your club can do
Rotary area of focus tile: Providing clean water, sanitation and hygiene
Why it matters

The need, by the numbers.

Clean water, sanitation and hygiene keep children in school, keep families healthy and give communities time to build their future.

How Rotary helps

What Rotary does.

Rotary says clean water, sanitation, and hygiene education “are basic necessities.”Rotary International

Rotary: Providing clean water Community Action for Fresh Water (Rotary and UNEP)

Take part

What your club can do.

  1. 1
    Fund a water projectJoin a global grant to bring water or sanitation to a community that needs it.
  2. 2
    Teach handwashingRun hygiene lessons with local schools.
  3. 3
    Rate your projectCheck it against the Four-Way Test, the 7 Areas of Focus, the 8 Pillars of Positive Peace and the 17 Goals at 47817.org.
  4. 4
    Bring Democracy In A Box to your clubContact us and we will help you get started.
The 7 in 4-7-8-17

Rotary’s 7 areas of focus.

See Rotary’s full work.

Stories, grants and ways to get involved from Rotary International.

Go to Rotary.org: Providing clean water, sanitation and hygiene