Please help us provide decent toilets for our children.

As you can see from this film the toilets are horrendous and grossly unhygienic and no model to teach personal hygiene to young children..

OK, so we need new toilets for the children and adults attending the Children's Centre.
BUT, what can we do without access to running water?
ANSWER, we will build toilets based on the African Dry Toilet (composting) system.
There are commercial systems available and ours will be built to the same design by experienced local builders, using the same waterless principles.
the plan for the new toilet block includes separate cubicles for boys and girls and an extra large one for eventual wheelchair users and adults. Water catchment from the roof will provide water for personal hygiene and hand washing.

   To donate through Paypal click on this button

To make online payment to Village Rwanda UK, The Cooperative Bank, Sort code 08-92-99, Account number 65765678, putting “World Toilet Day” as your payment reference.

If you are a UK taxpayer, please let us know whether you would be happy for this to be a GiftAid contribution.We are a registered UK charity, number: 1162004

World Toilet Day

World Toilet Day

Thursday 19^th Nov

Regular supporters of Village Rwanda UK will know that our big project this year has been supporting GiFo (an NGO in Rwanda’s Gihombo Sector) to build a purpose-built children’s centre building to house a nursery school, health centre and family services. Gihombo is a very remote rural area where we have been supporting the establishment of the nursery school in a borrowed church building over the last 3 years. You can see much more information about all of this work to date in other entries of this blog.

The new children’s centre, however, has extremely primitive latrines, as you can see in the photo… It looks lovely but, trust me, you don’t want to see inside. But it is all they have for 60 children and several adults.

The photo below shows an “African Dry Toilet design very similar to the latrines we have planned with GiFo for the children’s centre to be built in 2016. These will cost £2,000 to build. Will you help us with a gift towards these toilets for our children, which will completely change their experience of a day at school?

To donate: Either click on

to contribute through Paypal, or make online payment to Village Rwanda UK, The Cooperative Bank, Sort code 08-92-99, Account number 65765678, putting “World Toilet Day” as your payment reference.

We are a registered UK charity, number: 1162004

If you are a UK taxpayer, please let us know whether you would be happy for this to be a GiftAid contribution.

Thinking of Christmas Gifts???

The toilet with a view looks lovely but, trust me, you don't want to see inside!

We want to provide new toilets for our children in the village. You can help us provide this basic facility.

To donate:
Village Rwanda UK, The Cooperative Bank, Sort code 08-92-99, Account number 65765678.
Registered charity number: 1162004


or message me on tricia.atherton@gmail.com