Category: Updates
Construction of SATO Toilet by Urban Agriculture Garden (Thimphu)
June 16th, 2020A 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... readmore
School Toilet Project in Wangduephodrang Dzongkhag
June 6th, 2020If 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... readmore
Happy Birthday, Your Majesty
June 4th, 2020Happy Birthday, Your Majesty. May Your Beauty, Brilliance and Compassion continue to shine over us and inspire the citizens of this country and beyond. readmore
Our Minion toilet reached its destination at Greenlyfe Farm in Drukgyel, Paro.
May 27th, 2020Our 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... readmore
Chabto for every detention centre in the country
May 9th, 2020Chabto, 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... readmore
Grateful to YPLP-7 (RIGSS Alumni)
May 7th, 2020We 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... readmore
SATO pans to all the duty stations across the country
April 28th, 2020While 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... readmore
BTO 7th Board Meeting
April 27th, 2020BTO 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... readmore
SATO pan at PoE
April 21st, 2020It’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... readmore
Building toilets at the Point of Entry(PoE) duty stations along the border in Samtse.
April 19th, 2020It’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... readmore
Mewang Gup locks Wangsisina Toilet and won’t allow people to use it.
April 4th, 2020It’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... readmore
BTO delivered first batch of 38/115 portable Hand-washing stations
March 30th, 2020Delivered 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... readmore
Leading the movement
March 15th, 2020Member 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... readmore
STCBL commissioned its first-ever fuel retail outlet at Ramtokto,
March 12th, 2020STCB 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... readmore
How to make a hand washing station that is affordable, portable and reliable
March 10th, 2020Who 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... readmore
A Bad Move
March 1st, 2020Move 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,... readmore
On your birthday, Your Majesty…
February 21st, 2020On 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. readmore
Appointment of new core members of the Toilet Club in CNR
February 20th, 2020Appointment 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 readmore
A Turning Point for Tandin Dorji
January 6th, 2020A 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... readmore
Yalama Apa
December 26th, 2019Title: 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... readmore
Thank you JK Mini Mart and Dechen Norbuling Tshongkhang
December 16th, 2019JK 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... readmore
MoU is signed between BTO and Zhung Dratsang
December 9th, 2019MoU 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... readmore
Sunday morning discussion with our Samtse Ambassador
November 3rd, 2019ADEO 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... readmore
Monastic Toilet up-gradation
October 28th, 2019ཁྲུས་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... readmore
Goodbye to Pit Latrines of Laya
October 21st, 2019Ahead 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... readmore
2019 University Toilet Day
October 6th, 2019We 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... readmore
Hopeful End to School Toilet Problems in Paro:
September 28th, 2019The moment we end our training and distribute SATO pan, their work begins.Drukgyel LSS had the privilege of being the host school with 21 units of their old aqua-privy toilets upgraded as part of the training itself.Participants who are school health coordinators and caretakers expressed maximum satisfaction for having... readmore
CHABTO officially launched
August 24th, 2019A toilet that goes to people who can’t go to toilet is called Chabto. It is a very personal portable toilet for health and dignity. This Made in Bhutan toilet is a combination of technologies that is light, strong, water efficient, smell-free, and easy to manage. Hon’ble Health Minister,... readmore
Signing of MoU with Ministry of Education
July 4th, 2019We are honoured to share the news of the landmark signing of MoU with Ministry of Education today. The Secretary and the Director General of the ministry shared their profound faith in the ‘School Toilet Upgradation Project’, which they have seen practically and personally in the schools in Samtse,... readmore
Highway Restroom- A gift from Bank of Bhutan
May 23rd, 2019The two units toilet at Wangsisina is one among many programs BOB undertook as part of their Golden Jubilee Celebration. For the leading bank in the country to invest in public toilet as part of their celebration was historic in itself. Thank you. The facility is inaugurated and handed... readmore
signing of MoA (Memorandum of Agreement) with HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation Bhutan
March 30th, 2019We are happy to share the news of signing of MoA (Memorandum of Agreement) with HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation Bhutan for a 18 month project to strengthen and enhance our network of volunteers to make greater impact. The project is funded by EU through Helvetas Bhutan office. readmore
Update on the School WASH project to Sherig Lyonpo
March 25th, 2019This morning we had the opportunity to update Sherig Lyonpo on the School WASH project we are going to undertake in partnership with #SHND of MoE and UNICEF Bhutan. Within the next one and half year, we are going to upgrade all pit latrines and other old versions of toilet to pour flush... readmore
Audience with Hon’ble Prime Minister
February 8th, 2019Received an audience with Hon’ble Prime Minister, to update him on our activities and share our plans to collaborate with the government in achieving SDG6. We took the opportunity to introduce Ms. Sara Ogawa, JCI APDC to His Excellency. She was instrumental in getting #SATOpan for us from Lixil and support from Saraya... readmore
Ace birder and football obsessed
January 15th, 2019Ace birder and football obsessed Hishey Tshering says that he can sleep anywhere, but when it comes to toilet, he needs a clean and comfortable one.He is so appreciative of what we strive for and therefore committed to contribute Nu.20,000/- annually since last year.We just received his generous donation for the... readmore