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 ...

"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 (McCormick ’09) recently won the $100,000 Waislitz Global Citizen Award for his humanitarian efforts to improve public health in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India. Jain is the ...

While working in northeast India a couple years ago, New Orleans native Anoop Jain came to realize just how pronounced the practice of public defecation had become. Inadequate public and expensive ...

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 ...

In 2013 more than 340,000 children under the age of five died from diseases caused by a lack of safe water, sanitation and basic hygiene, according to a report by the United Nations International ...

Having access to indoor plumbing and working toilets is something that most of us take for granted. Unfortunately, this luxury is a rarity in much of the developing world. Without adequate access to ...

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 ...

When Anoop Jain graduated from college in 2009 and got a good job as an engineer, his parents figured he was set. But then a year later, he left his engineering job to go to India to work in community ...

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 ...