Indoor plumbing and working toilets—conveniences that so many take for granted—remain a rare luxury in much of the developing world. For example, more than 650 million people in India lack adequate ...

In summer 2010 Anoop Jain (McC09) quit his engineering job in suburban Chicago, raised $25,000 and went to India to work on a community kitchen for Tibetan refugees in McLeod Ganj, a village on the ...

"I wake up at 5:30 in the morning to go to the fields to relieve myself." This call of (and deposit in) nature was something Anoop Jain heard about over and again while doing community health surveys ...

Anoop Jain is the founding director of Sanitation and Health Rights in India (SHRI), a non-profit that works with local communities in rural India to end open defecation. He is currently doctoral ...