The Good Roll Foundation
The Good Roll Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of The Good Roll BV, was established in 2018. Each year, The Good Roll donates 50% of its net profit to the construction of safe and clean toilets in developing countries. The projects we engage in, besides building the sanitary facilities, are related to education on sanitary products, such as toilet rolls, menstruation pads, and soap.
The Good Roll Foundation has one goal: to make sustainable sanitation available. Our Foundation was established to spend the money we raise through the sale of our rolls on the construction of sanitation, without making a profit in the process. We believe in our entrepreneurship. We reserve a maximum amount for the donation to our foundation and for our cooperation with SIMAVI. All for the construction of toilets. Therefore we have fixed our "overhead costs" to a maximum of 30%. If the costs exceed 20%, the extra costs will be deducted from our profit share and will not be charged to our Foundation.
Our main priority is to improve children’s lives and therefore we mainly focus on schools and their communities within Ghana. The foundation contributes mainly to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal number six: “Clean water and Sanitation for all by 2030”. In this way we remain fully focused on our mission: building toilets and improving people's lives in countries where they lack these basic facilities.
We give a shit!
Every financial year, we publish our annual financial statements. The donation goes to our Foundation, which distributes it over our own projects and for example collaborations with SIMAVI. Our impact meter shows how many toilets we have built and will build. This impact meter is therefore partly fictitious. It does, however, give a good picture of our mission, the current projects and what the counter will look like when we draw up our annual figures.
Because of our positive impact on people and the planet, The Good Roll Foundation recently received ANBI status 8588 94 178. This certificate is awarded to non-profit organisations that direct at least 90% of their efforts towards the common good.
Do you want to know more about our impact? Read our annual report 2021.
We build toilets!
Below pictures of a few of our projects are presented. Check out our foundation website to read more about our upcoming- and finished projects.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
With the Good Roll we contribute mainly to the UN Sustainable Development Goal number 6, clean water and sanitation for everyone by 2030. We believe clean drinking water and clean sanitation have a positive impact on other Sustainable Development Goals, such as food safety, education and health. Clean toilets in schools ensure that more girls continue going to school, even when they have their period. Besides, children become less susceptible to diseases, both of which result in a more educated youth which will be better equipped to contribute to the economy.
Millions of people still die every year from diseases caused by poor sanitation and this has a direct impact on the local economy. Currently, 1.8 billion people still get their drinking water from polluted sources and an additional 2.4 billion people still have no access to clean toilets and other sanitary facilities.
A lot of waste products are still thrown away in bodies of water. To improve the quality of water across the globe, this form of pollution must stop and waste water must be purified. All countries should have a properly functioning water management system, if feasible, by 2030. Check out the figure below to see what SDG's The Good Roll contributes to:
ANBI: 8588 94 178
