Toilets in Thimphu Schools
From a distance, when we look at Thimphu, everything seems so fine. We don’t expect a dirty toilet in the capital of the country. But when we come in, Thimphu is no better than any Dzongkhag. We are happy to share the news of the next phase of our school toilet project in partnership with […]
Toilet Up-gradation at RAPA Hostel
RAPA Boys Hostel is said to be over half a century old and so are the two-unit toilets. The trainee boys have tried everything to make the toilets tolerable but without a major renovation, not much could be done. The new vice principal, Phuba Wangdi who was shocked by the toilets, took it up as […]
5-unit toilet in Wangdue Pry School
Nonetheless! The 5-unit toilet in Wangdue Pry School is done over the past three days. The temporary SATO toilet can serve the purpose for at least 5 years if the wall beneath doesn’t collapse over time. We hope the school will give due importance to the new toilet.Gratitude to Bajothang Higher Secondary School for allowing […]
May we check your toilet?
We want to find out what type of leadership and management allow dirty toilet, and which type are particularly serious about clean toilets. We hereby seek your permission to evaluate your office toilet silently and publish the findings. If you don’t mind. We are doing it anyway. https://www.passudiary.com/2020/11/may-we-check-your-toilet.html?fbclid=IwAR0AiG4bFg46lpOhAwFt8d00OYexgtVplVKnLQ-c4GbSpgXilUQXDZZKweA
Site Toilet
We would like to specifically call it a “Site Toilet”, which means a toilet for the workers on construction sites. Because they deserve one. We are so proud to be associated with a highly motivated team from CDCL who are currently building pavement along Lungtenzampa-Simtokha highway for making a working prototype of “Site Toilet” on […]
Training for Toilet Managers
Click here to Register a participant We would like to offer a two-day training for toilet managers/in-charges/cleaners.(NOTE: It’s for serving in-chargers and cleaners and not for the general public) The training will cover; 1. Building a Proud-to-be-a-cleaner #Attitude 2. Understanding a #CleanToilet and how to maintain it 3. Using the #right tools and gears for […]
The first Ambassador Conference (19-20 Nov)
The first Ambassador Conference (19-20 Nov) The two days event was in the planning since 2019. Things got push thus far, but despite all the chaos of 2020, we managed to bring together most of our ambassadors for the first time. Those who couldn’t come due to travel restrictions from the south, joined virtually. The […]
Toilet: A Secret Face of Management
Toilet: A Secret Face of Management” – A study to find the correlation between the condition of toilets in a place and the management of the place. Our Chairperson, Dr Lam Dorji facilitated the session on laying the foundation of this study. He shared that while constructing the RSPN Building during his tenure as Executive […]
Best World Toilet Day Ever
We will cherish today as the best World Toilet Day ever because we had our ambassadors from across the country, who had come for 2020 Ambassador Conference, with us at the ceremony, which was graced by our chair, Dr Lam Dorji and the movers and shakers in the sanitation world like Raj Kumar (SNV), Rinchen […]
Thank you Drilyon
10 years old Drilyon Rinchen living in New York with his parents Lotay & Thi Cho has send us Nu.10,000 to support our cause. His parents told us that the little man watched an inspirational video (of how a boy saved from his birthday expenses to educate their family’s driver’s and cook’s children) and told […]
Introduction of FANSA to relevant CSOs
As the Focal Point for Freshwater Action Network South Asia (FANSA) in Bhutan, we are pleased to have introduced the network to the fellow CSOs during the Quarterly Meeting. This is also to encourage relevant CSOs to join the network as members towards forming a FANSA Bhutan Chapter. Some 34 heads and representatives of CSOs […]
3-days training for Youth Centre Managers
We are proud to have designed and conducted a 3-days training for Youth Centre Managers in partnership with UNICEF Bhutan and DYS.The training was to aimed at equipping the participants with WASH knowledge, skills to maintain the facilities and tools to carry our maintenance. With this training we are expecting the Youth Centers to have […]
Thank you Bhutan Buildware
Once in a blue moon, we get a call or a message that is not about what we can do for them, but it rather about how they can help us. This time it’s Mr Ugyen Wangdi of Bhutan Buildware who said he had always deeply wanted to help BTO. His business is equally hit […]
Saving old toilets in schools
If your school has an old toilet that is no more in use, please let us know, we shall do our little magic on it and give it a new lease of life. Let’s save the old toilets because new toilets don’t happen often. SAVING OLD TOILETS IN SCHOOLS https://www.passudiary.com/2019/12/saving-old-toilets-in-schools.html?fbclid=IwAR3yZIuBo29wQ_IJco_qgqh7MiRyokoekkEHCWT7L9MkEIkvBcdNxbGZS2g HOW BETTER SCHOOL TOILETS CAN […]
Thank you Mr Bupdosh and his team at Phuentsholing Happiness Centre
We are grateful to Mr Bupdosh and his team at Pling Happiness Centre for helping us rescue our portable toilets from MDP. It took us over two weeks and dozens of calls to just get back our toilets (in the worst conditions). We are completely heartbroken. We remember sending 6 toilets instantly after just one […]
60 Sato toilets being built in Gelephu-Sarpang
With five new SATO toilets built yesterday in MDP Gelephu for Indian truckers, Bhutanese loaders and duty officials, our Ambassador Pema Sea counted 60 Sato toilets being built in Gelephu-Sarpang. She has been a strong and effective bridge between us and her Drungkhag, communicating the needs to us and sourcing SATO pan from us. She […]
Toilet Hack
How to make an ordinary toilet safe for elderly and People with Disabilities using a simple accessory. #toilethack It costs Nu.2400 and is available in Kuenphen Medical, located near the Main Traffic, Norzin Lam.
official partner of Sanitation and Water for All
We would like to share the good news of Bhutan Toilet Org becoming an official partner of Sanitation and Water for All, a global body of multi-stakeholder partnership of governments and their partners from civil society, the private sector, United Nations agencies, research and learning institutions, development banks and the donor community.We look forward to […]
Hobbit Toilet in Haa
Hobbit Toilet in Haa is something to see during the Royal Bhutan Flower Exhibition but looks like we will have to wait. The beautiful piece of art was built by the Dzongkhag Health team led by DHO Samten Wangyel in their bigger project, Herbal Garden (Menlha Park) . It has two units both of which […]
Septic tanks designed in Japan for Bhutanese homes
These are household septic tanks designed in Japan for Bhutanese homes. To be precise they are individual household treatment plants, where the waste water from the homes will be treated and clean water will be sent out. That’s the concept of septic tank in developed countries. We have received 6 tanks as donation from our […]
Toilets for the front liners
Two portable toilets deployed in JDWNRH Emergency Department that is established outdoors in parking lot, housed in the tents. It’s to protect the patients inside the hospital from possible infection from exposed visitors from outside. We have three more portable toilets on standby to be deployed wherever they urgently needed on the frontline. Just drop […]
Chelela Toilet 3.0
After the toilet sunk into its own pit last time, we dug a new pit nearby and moved the toilet to a new location. Unlike the earlier pits, we built a stone wall along the inner walls of the pit to prevent similar damage. Further, we upgraded it to a pour-flush toilet using the SATO […]
How to build a SATO Toilet in 5 Days
Day 1: Dig a pit and build a wall along the mouth of the pit. Day 2: Cast a slab over the pit and install SATO pans. Day 3: Build the skeletal frame of the toilet and put the roof over the toilet. Day 4: Installed panels; board on along the top and cement along […]
School Toilet Project in Haa Dzongkhag
With 22 SATO pan installers trained in Haa from 8 schools, some 130+ old toilets will be upgraded to Sato toilets within a week or two. A variety of old toilets ranging from pit latrines to drain toilets and aqua-privy toilets were present in Haa schools. As part of the training, participants upgraded 11 units […]
Construction of SATO Toilet by Urban Agriculture Garden (Thimphu)
A week ago, Mr. BB Rai came with his team and took three SATO pan from our office and he agreed that the three farms in Bebena, Begana and Changtagang will take up the challenge to build the best farm toilets ever…Well today, Mr. BB Rai graciously invited Chablop to open their toilet at Bebena […]
School Toilet Project in Wangduephodrang Dzongkhag
If schools are to open sooner, we are happy to inform that schools in Wangdue will be ready with adequate WASH facilities, especially toilets and handwashing facility. Some 150 units of toilets will be upgraded in 14 schools over this week, beginning with Bajothang. This project is a collaboration between UNICEF Bhutan , Sherig Bhutan […]
Happy Birthday, Your Majesty
Happy Birthday, Your Majesty. May Your Beauty, Brilliance and Compassion continue to shine over us and inspire the citizens of this country and beyond.
Our Minion toilet reached its destination at Greenlyfe Farm in Drukgyel, Paro.
Our cute minion toilet reached its destination at Greenlyfe Farm in Drukgyel, Paro. This is a prototype of a low-cost toilet we aspire to build for farms, camps, construction sites, etc. Green Lyfe farm is one among a few emerging farms we have given toilet support. We hope to be able to help more and […]
Chabto for every detention centre in the country
Chabto, the portable toilet that’s designed for people who can’t go to toilet was first conceived and modelled for detention centres and jail vans after Maj Karma Dema of RBP visited us and gave us an overview of the critical need. We are grateful to Rotary Club of Thimphu for supporting the project and funding […]
Grateful to YPLP-7 (RIGSS Alumni)
We are so grateful to YPLP-7 (RIGSS Alumni) for partnering with us in producing 33 units of SATO toilet flooring. These are strong toilet floors ready to be installed over a pit, with exact fitting hole for SATO pan. YPLP-7 offered the toilet floors to OGZ to be centrally managed and distributed to the needy […]
SATO pans to all the duty stations across the country
While we are committed to giving out SATO pans to all the duty stations across the country, we would like to request the Dzongkhag coordinators to initiate and ask for total units required for the whole Dzongkhag, rather than each station asking for their own checkpoints. You could ask through our ambassadors (list and contact […]
BTO 7th Board Meeting
BTO Board Members, during the 7th Board Meeting on April 25, 2020, launched two publications; 1. BTO Journey So Far, Report 2019 2. BTO Strategic Plan 2020-2023 One document reflects on the past four years and other looks forward to the next four years. We hope to carry forward the experience we have had in […]
SATO pan at PoE
It’s impractical to invest in expensive toilets at the temporary checkpoints along the border but it’s important to have safe and clean toilets to ensure that our services people remain healthy. Therefore, we are ready to distribute SATO pans to every checkpoints. Coordinators can get in touch with us to avail them. Samtse Dzongkhag is […]
Building toilets at the Point of Entry(PoE) duty stations along the border in Samtse.
It’s been a satisfying day building toilets at the Point of Entry(PoE) duty stations along the border in Samtse. We completed two toilets, which were intended as demonstration for the rest of the 40+ PoE in Samtse maned by Dessups, RBA and RBP. A Video tutorial was made of the process and shared among the […]
Mewang Gup locks Wangsisina Toilet and won’t allow people to use it.
It’s our biggest regret to have built a two-units toilet in Wangsisina, where the gup instead of being thankful, threatens to tear down the toilet.In early 2018 we had verbal approval from the gup himself to build the toilet but we didn’t know that the location we chose based on the utility was not his […]
BTO delivered first batch of 38/115 portable Hand-washing stations
Delivered first batch of 38/115 portable handwashing stations to Save the Children International- Bhutan Country Office.These are to be distributed to schools through SHND, MoE to make better and flexible access to handwashing facilities in schools, since handwashing is now seen with greater purpose than ever before in the wake of COVID19 Pandemic. Note: This […]
Leading the movement
Member of BTO club in Samtse College, Mahesh Dhakal is leading the movement in his teaching practice school Damphu Central School with some of his students and colleagues.He relate the following story to make sense of what his is initiating; “Whose Job Is It, Anyway?”This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody […]
STCBL commissioned its first-ever fuel retail outlet at Ramtokto,
STCB Ltd. was clear right from the beginning that their fuel stations will have clean toilet and drinking water facilities for the public. They lived up to their vision with the very first fuel station at Ramtoktok. We would like to congratulate the management of STCBL for the thoughtful planning and going beyond business motives.STCBL […]
How to make a hand washing station that is affordable, portable and reliable
Who would have thought that a seemingly childish exercise of teaching school children how to wash their hands effectively with soap could turn out to be a great defence against a totally new disease like #covid19 Much apprication to Sherig Bhutan officials in SHND, PHED and UNICEF Bhutan for their persistence over the last few years in inculcating the habit. […]
A Bad Move
Move A school in Punakha has employed toilet cleaner for student toilets with money contributed by the parents because the parents didn’t want their children to do the job.The result is that no toilet is flushed after use despite having good toilets and water supply.This is a dangerous move, where students are deprived of the […]
On your birthday, Your Majesty…
On your birthday, Your Majesty, we pledge to make clean toilet a way of life in Bhutan, that everyone recognises, appreciates, and put in their efforts to keep toilets clean wherever they go.
Appointment of new core members of the Toilet Club in CNR
Appointment of new core members of the Toilet Club in College of Natural Resources (CNR)Congratulations to the new members, we look forward to greater collaboration. CNR-Bhutan Toilet Organization
A Turning Point for Tandin Dorji
A young entrepreneur on the wheelchair, Tandin Dorji said he didn’t have accessible toilet at home, and that he mostly has to use plastic bag as toilet.At the I am an entrepreneur event at RIM, we asked him if our Chabto will be useful to him, he said it will change his life. Thus, we gave him […]
Yalama Apa
Title: Yalama Apa Language: Dzongkha and English ISBN: 9789998085602 Story: Chablop PaSsu Illustration: Yellow Box Animation Design and Layout: iBEST STUDIOS Script and Translation: Nawang Phuntsho Dzongkha Script Review: Dzongkha Development Commission Printed at: United Printing Press, Thimphu Bhutan Toilet Org’s animation video is published in a form of a book to target primary school […]
Thank you JK Mini Mart and Dechen Norbuling Tshongkhang
JK Mini Mart and Dechen Norbuling Tshongkhang donated over 380 rolls of toilet paper that we would require for 100+ toilets at the National Day Celebration venue. We are indebted to the two shops for their unconditional and continued support. While some donate unconditionally, there are some of us who waste TP carelessly, and other […]
MoU is signed between BTO and Zhung Dratsang
MoU is signed between BTO and Zhung Dratsang to collaborate as partners to carry out toilet up-gradtion works in Monastic institutions across the country, using SATO technology.Thus far we have covered 26 Monastic schools in three Dzongkhags with amazing results.The toilets in these lobdras and shedras are not only upgraded from aqua-privy and pit latrines […]
Sunday morning discussion with our Samtse Ambassador
ADEO Chencho Tshering, who came all the way to plan for the public toilet and hand wash facilities during Samtse Melam Chenmo.We planned to set up 18 units of SATO toilet for female, 12 units+ 8 urinals for male and install 5 handwashing barrels. On top of that we are going to implement reuse of shampoo […]
Monastic Toilet up-gradation
ཁྲུས་ཀྱི་ཁང་པ་ཤིན་ཏུ་དྲི་ཞིམ་པ། །གསེར་གྱི་ས་གཞི་གསལ་ཞིང་འཚེར་བ་བསྟར། །– Lord Buddha It was an extremely humbling experience to have Lams and Lopens from some 32 monastic institutions rolling up their robe and getting into the toilet without a speck of hesitation. This group of learned monks are getting trained to install SATO pan and upgrade old toilets on their own without […]
Goodbye to Pit Latrines of Laya
Ahead of Royal Highland Festival we are upgrading all the pit latrines in Laya, 3800 m above sea level, to fresh SATO toilets, to ensure that everyone taking part in the festival gets to use good toilets at their farm houses. People in Laya do have toilets but they are all traditional pit latrines that smell real […]
2019 University Toilet Day
We Bhutanese are known to use strange objects to wipe ourselves clean after using toilet, therefore our college clubs decided to create awareness on the use of tissue paper or water as part of 2019 University Toilet Day. They are spreading the message; “Use Tissue Paper or Water for your own good and for the […]