With our social-aid projects around the world, we are making a sustainable contribution to improving the quality of life and to one of the most important elements for human health: basic sanitary services.
We are not simply making money and materials available, but are instead planning, leading and coordinating aid projects with Geberit employees as the responsible project managers. Local people are included, supported and trained in order to ensure that local workers will be able to perform ongoing upkeep and repair work on their own.
Geberit carried out a pilot project in Pomasqui near Quito, Ecuador in the fall of 2008. Today, Colegio Pomasqui, a state school for around 1,000 students, has a new toilet building with sufficient toilets, urinals and washbasins, solar-powered hot water as well as a reed sewage plant for purifying waste water and protecting drinking-water resources. In addition to the Geberit Project Manager, eight Geberit apprentices from Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as a chaperone, actively supported the work over a period of two weeks in October 2008.