Wish for WASH

Four years in the making and THE FIRST COPY IS FINALLY HERE 🎉📚

This week, Wish for WASH x held the first copy of LIL’ DEE OF PLANET ZEE during ’s 11th birthday week, and it feels like a full-circle moment. We believe conversations about do not have to wait until adolescence. Starting earlier, with age-appropriate language, helps normalize these topics and build confidence over time.

🚀 LIL’ DEE OF PLANET ZEE is a quirky, fun picture book for parents and caregivers to gently spark conversations about menstruation with young children (K–3), using imagination and humor, grounded in evidence-based science. Written by Laura Monahan and illustrated by Jing Wang Herman, the story invites kids into a warm, stigma-free learning moment on Planet Zee.

We are excited to begin seeing this story make its way into communities through an upcoming pilot, with the hope of reaching families through trusted healthcare and community settings.

Huge gratitude to our collaborators Megha, Priyal, Natalia, the team, and Shreyas for the vision behind this work!

👉🏾 Pre-order LIL’ DEE OF PLANET ZEE: https://lnkd.in/gazRcJnZ ( )

Curious on how to support us in this children’s education and project? DM us ✨

Innovation begins with empathy and ends with impact. 💙🌍✨

Nearly 11 years ago, started with a simple question from a group of students who believed design could change the way the world approaches toilets and periods. That small spark grew into a global community of changemakers using human-centered design to reimagine water, sanitation, and hygiene for everyone.

Today, our mission remains the same. We aim to empower changemakers with the skills and mindsets to collaboratively design sustainable WASH solutions that honor dignity, creativity, and community voice.

As we celebrate and our 11th Birthday on December 9, we are rallying our community to help raise $11K to grow our Wish for WASH Thinks Innovation Lab. This support means more expert mentors, more creative space, more materials, and more opportunities for the innovators dreaming up a more equitable WASH futures.

If Wish for WASH has ever inspired you, taught you something new, or made you smile because and , we would be grateful if you could donate or share.

👉🏾 Donate or share here: donorbox.org/celebrating-10-years-of-wish-for-wash-1 (or via the link in our bio)

THANK YOU for believing in the power of empathy-driven design and bold ideas for toilets, periods, and beyond. 🚽✨🎈

DAWN TO DUSK "Join us and journey alongside individuals whose lives intersect with SATO in unique and meaningful ways" https://online.fliphtml5.com/dctzx/qxyd/ =3

Dawn to Dusk - final Every morning, as the world wakes for another day, billions of sanitation and hygiene stories are written – from the mother collecting water for hygiene at home to the toilet sales agent making an income by selling SATO products in his village. Shining a light on eleven individuals from Africa and...

My “Gateway” to Advancing Menstrual Health Through Research and Education "As a public health student, much of my time has been spent immersed in research. I love research, but this summer, I had a unique opportunity to step beyond that to co-lead a workshop for adolescent peer educators learning to teach their peers about puberty"
https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/my-gateway-advancing-menstrual-health-through-research-education

My “Gateway” to Advancing Menstrual Health Through Research and Education MPH student Bhavana Huliyar writes about her time as a Sid Lerner Women’s and Adolescent Health Fellow with the Gender, Adolescent Transitions and Environment (GATE) Program.