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Menstrual Hygiene Day is a day we look forward to every year at Surge. This year’s theme – #WeAreCommitted – highlights the work that is being done year-round to break taboos, end the [...]

Hand-in-hand with our local implementing partners, we are off to a great start in 2022! Together, we have impacted 13,350 people since the start of the year! Our work focuses on delivering safe [...]

With only 22% of the Haitian population having access to soap and water, many families cannot achieve high standards of sanitation and hygiene, allowing waterborne illnesses to spread. Our [...]

With our local implementing partner Clean Water International in the Philippines (CWIP), we have expanded our work from household filters to solutions scaled for communities. After the successful [...]

While many improvements have been made to achieve global access to water, sanitation, and hygiene, the reality is that over two billion people still lack access to safe, clean drinking water, and [...]

According to UNICEF, 66 percent of schools globally do not have access to sanitation facilities that are single-sex and usable.* This equates to 600 million children who go to school but don’t [...]

Since early August, our local implementing partner POPOW has been hard at work making sure that communities across Kaberamaido and Kalaki, Uganda, have access to clean, safe water. With their [...]

With COVID-19 spreading rapidly across the world and communities going in and out of lockdown, 2021 was more uncertain than many of us hoped it would be. Despite that uncertainty, we were able to [...]

It’s estimated that between $1.2 and 1.5 billion dollars in investments were lost between 1989 and 2009 because of nonfunctional water wells. That’s decades of water access work and billions of [...]

First periods can be scary. Even scarier is menstruating but not knowing what is going on with your body. In Kaberamaido and Kalaki Districts in Eastern Uganda, first periods can be associated [...]