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How can we turn waste into power? This , themed “Our Power, Our Planet”, challenges us to accelerate the transition to renewable energy and build a cleaner, greener future. At Sanergy, we transform organic waste from households and markets into renewable energy, such as briquettes, reducing emissions, decreasing reliance on fossil fuels.

By turning waste into energy, we are protecting the planet!

Skoll World Forum 2026 is coming up, and we are looking forward to it.

Representing The Sanergy Collaborative and Fresh Life will be David Auerbach, Co-founder & President of The Sanergy Collaborative; Lindsay Stradley, Fresh Life Co-founder & Executive Director; and Eric Njogu, Fresh Life Managing Director, who will be connecting with fellow changemakers in Oxford.

We welcome opportunities to engage in enlightening conversations, forge new partnerships, and amplify solutions that drive meaningful change.

See you at Skoll!

Today we join the world in marking World Water Day. As the Sanergy Collaborative, we continue to play our part by providing safe, inclusive sanitation solutions that protect vital water sources. Through our waterless Fresh Life Toilets, we save billions of water each year and reduce the burden on women and girls. Where water flows, equality grows.

This World Water Day reminds us that are closely connected. In many communities, women and girls carry the greatest burden when water and sanitation are limited, spending hours collecting water, navigating unsafe facilities, all while managing other daily responsibilities.

Safe, clean and accessible water plays a vital role in making life easier and more equitable for women and girls. It improves health, education and the overall quality of life for communities at large. Where water flows, equality grows.

International Women’s Day 2026 offered a moment to pause and reflect on growth, balance, and the power of investing in ourselves as women of the Sanergy Collaborative.

This week, we brought our ladies together for a special reflective session that created space for inspiration and introspection. Through a vision board exercise facilitated by Gladys Wanene and a powerful “Tree of Life” session guided by our key guest, psychologist and mental well-being strategist Tara Ndichu, we visualized the aspirations, goals, and lives we hope to shape; and explored the values, experiences, and relationships that shape who we are.

The conversations of the day were honest and deep. They were a reflection of how women often pour into others that they sometimes forget to nurture themselves. IWD 2026 was a reminder that investing in our own well-being is indeed the first step to investing in others.

“The humble toilet is an icon of progress preventing disease, protecting the environment and preserving dignity and opportunity.” — António Guterres, Secretary General United Nations.

At Sanergy Collaborative, we see this every day. From providing safe sanitation solutions to empowering local communities, every toilet installed is more than just infrastructure it's improved environment, health, dignity, and climate resilience.

As the world gathers in Belém, Brazil to tackle the climate crisis, Sanergy is showing what real climate solutions look like on the ground. By transforming urban waste into valuable resources that is nutrient-rich fertilizer and renewable energy,we’re closing the loop for healthier cities and a cooler planet. Circular economy isn’t just a buzzword for us,it’s daily practice that empowers communities, cuts emissions, and delivers results that global pledges alone can’t. At , we’re calling for climate action that starts with safe sanitation and ends with thriving, resilient cities.

It's not everyday that a Sanergy Collaborative Fellow is recognized as a MacArthur Genius Awardee! Will Tarpeh, who is now a professor at Stanford, worked with us in Kenya in 2012-14. His research focused on extracting minerals like struvite, which is rich in phosphate, from urine. Struvite can be used as an organic fertilizer to help crops grow. This research has been very helpful for us as we work to create value from waste, and therefore make it more cost-effective to provide safe sanitation for residents of urban informal settlements and climate-smart agricultural inputs for farmers across Kenya.

Here's a great video on his work! https://www.macfound.org/videos/2025-macarthur-fellow-william-tarpeh

We congratulate Will on the distinction from the MacArthur Foundation, and we are beyond proud of all that he's gone on to done to advance the circular economy and improve people's lives through smart sanitation solutions.

William Tarpeh - 2025 MacArthur Fellow The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and unders...

What a week it's been at UNGA 80 and New York Climate Week! From thought-provoking sessions to spontaneous hallway conversations, the urgency to scale bold solutions and accelerate impact where it matters most has never been clearer.

It's been a joy to connect with numerous stakeholders and leaders including Patricia Chin Sweeney, Daniel Kayter, Lyndsay Handler, Thomas Gallas, Monica Miller Prabhu, David Henkel Wallace, Cheryl Dorsey, and Matt Forti.

What has been your biggest takeaway this week? Share with us in the comment section below

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