Safe water and sanitation for all Indonesian villages with Safe Water Gardens 

In this project, Safe Water Gardens together with the local communities and university proved the concept of a new and affordable sanitation system (visualized in the picture), the Safe Water Garden. A Safe Water Garden (SWG) is modeled on an original UNICEF concept and hold many benefits, like preventing diseases, catalyzing food production, and being highly affordable. Besides testing and proving the SWG. This project showed the success of the concept of the Model Village Program (MVP) in Indonesia. A Model Village Program is a center/pilot village of WASH (Water, Sanitation, Hygiene) with trained teachers that can power a regional rollout of safe WASH. In the 3 pilot villages, the project pioneered a very successful WASH curriculum for spreading the needed knowledge and skills for the SWG WASH system and successfully conducted community-driven census data collection which proved the need of WASH and showed the success of the system. After finishing the TAUW Foundation project, Safe Water Gardens is working on a national and even global rollout of the WASH system. 

The SWG on land has proven to be a success, therefore the consortium wanted to work on the systems for houses on water/on stilts. Millions of people (in Indonesia) live on stilts without safe sanitation. In this project, the consortium devised, implemented and optimized a new and affordable sanitation system for houses on stilts/on water. During testing, a number of “bugs” in the system were discovered and fixed. After finishing the TAUW Foundation project, Safe Water Gardens is working on a national and even global rollout of the WASH system for houses on land ánd on water.

You can read more on the success of this project in this report.