Building toilets

Securing health

Empowering education

Smol Haos Toilet Project

Clean water. Safe births. Stronger futures.

The Smol Haos Toilet (SHT) Project is a grassroots organization dedicated to advancing health and education equity for women and girls across Vanuatu. Our work began from lived experience in communities where access to clean water, safe sanitation, and reliable healthcare is limited, yet the strength of family and community runs deep.

We focus on one of the most powerful, overlooked tools for saving lives: sanitation. By building and restoring toilets, water systems, maternity wards, and clinic infrastructure, we help ensure that mothers can give birth safely, girls can stay in school, and families can thrive. Our community‑led projects — like the Ioananen Clinic Restoration — demonstrate how local partnership and sustainable design create long‑term impact.

Why Toilets?

Because the toilet is the single most impactful catalyst for maternal health, economic growth, and human potential.

This is about so much

More Than Toilets

Health

Unsafe sanitation claims 1.4 million lives every year. By delivering universal access, we stop the spread of deadly disease and save nearly 4,000 lives every single day

Education

By building sanitation facilites as schools, we are inviting 427 million children back to their desks and ensuring every girl has the dignity and opportunity to stay in school every single day of the month.

Economic Growth

Every $1 invested in sanitation yields a $5.50 economic return. It is simply the most powerful engine for human prosperity today

Environment

Clean sanitation is a victory for the planet. We are turning the tide on environmental damage to unlock $96 million in agricultural and ecological potential every single year

When we change sanitation, we change everything.

This is about so much more than toilets.

Unsafe sanitation claims 1.4 million lives every year. By delivering universal access, we stop the spread of deadly disease and save nearly 4,000 lives every single day

By building sanitation facilities as schools, we are inviting 427 million children back to their desks and ensuring every girl has the dignity and opportunity to stay in school every single day of the month.

Every $1 invested in sanitation yields a $5.50 economic return. It is simply the most powerful engine for human prosperity today

Clean sanitation is a victory for the planet. We are turning the tide on environmental damage to unlock $96 million in agricultural and ecological potential every single year

Equal Education for Girls

Equitable Healthcare for Women

Imagine missing out on school because you can’t access proper sanitation

or

losing your child because of the lack of a toilet and water

1 in 2

1 woman dies every 2 minutes from complications during child birth or pregnancy

1 in 2

schools lack sanitation facilities, forcing girls to miss school during menstruation

1 in 50

infants die because their mother did not have access to proper healthcare in the south pacific

 

IMPACT OF OUR WORK

Every great change starts with a single community. Today, we’ve delivered clean, reliable sanitation to a clinic serving 10,000 people—ensuring that 300+ patients and 10 newborns every month finally have the safe, hygienic medical care they deserve.

Every dollar you give supports direct project work, extending life‑saving care to thousands. Together, we’re creating healthier futures, one toilet — and one story of hope — at a time.

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100% to projects.

0% to overhead.

Private donors fund our operations so that every cent you give is dedicated to increasing sanitation access.

give a $HT

100% to projects.

0% to overhead.

Private donors fund our operations so that every cent you give is dedicated to increasing sanitation access.

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