Our Story
After dealing with serious waterborne illness first hand, we decided to dedicate our lives to giving safe water to those in need.
We founded GROSCHE in our basement in 2006 with visions of a social enterprise that could change the world. We use the profits from the sales of our products to fund the GROSCHE SAFE WATER PROJECT, installing water filters to provide those in economically underdeveloped regions with access to safe water.
- Helmi & Mehreen
Co-Founders
Thanks to our customers we’ve funded
How We Give Back
When you buy a GROSCHE product, you’re funding 50+ days of safe drinking water for someone in need via the GROSCHE Safe Water Project.
Our Safe Water Project (SWP) provides people in need with safe drinking water through the construction and installation of Biosand water filters. These filters purify water for a family up to 10 and can last up to 30 years.
Thanks to customers like you, we’re in business to change lives.
What we do
With the proceeds from your purchases, we fund the making, installation, and care of biosand water filters in remote extreme poverty stricken areas. These biosand filters make their contaminated water safe to drink. Allowing them to work, go to school, and lead healthier and productive lives. These biosand filters last up to 30 years - saving and changing lives in the process without any extra chemicals, cartridges, electricity, or moving parts, and requiring little to no maintenance.
Giving back
When you choose GROSCHE, you're choosing to give back safe water to those in need.
This is a short video overview of the GROSCHE Safe Water Project.
#everycupfillsanother
Sustainable Development
Our approach to giving back is one of empowering sustainable development. The filters that we fund are locally made and serviced, with local materials, by local people. They install the filters we fund, as well as sell filters to those who can buy. This empowers our teams to build skills, have a source of income, and gain sustainable employment that benefits those in need.
How Biosand Filters work
Made with local skills and materials, these water filters purify contaminated water without the use of chemicals, electricity, or any replacement cartridges. They are made of cement or clay, and only use gravel and sand to biologically purify water so its safe to drink.
They last up to 30 years, and purify water for a family of up to 10 people. They can change the course of 2 generations of people's live allowing them to work, go to school, and improve their lives.
Where are our projects located?
Biosand filters work in warm and temperate climates. Our Safe Water Projects and water filters are located in remote mainly agricultural areas (with no access to electricity) in South Sudan, Uganda, Malawi, India, Pakistan, and The Philippines.
Imagine this was your drinking water
Nearly 1 in 7 people alive are forced to drink polluted and contaminated water. Our Bio Sand water filters purify this water to make it safe to drink, and last up to 30 years. They can change the course of 2 generations by helping with waterborne illness.
Sustainable Development
Our approach to giving back is one of empowering sustainable development. The filters that we fund are locally made and serviced, with local materials, by local people. They install the filters we fund, as well as sell filters to those who can buy.
This empowers our teams to build skills, have a source of income, and gain sustainable employment that also benefits those in need.
A lasting solution
A bio sand filter is a simple solution to the issue of unsafe drinking water in warm climate areas. It empowers people with sustainable employment by making, delivering, and installing these water filters. In addition, these filters are virtually maintenance free requiring no chemicals, replacement cartridges, or electricity.
They can provide water purification for 10 people for up to 30 years.
Choose the brand that gives back
When you buy a GROSCHE product, you're funding 50+ days of safe drinking water for someone in need.
Your purchase will make a difference in someone's life.
#everycupfillsanother
Some of the thousands of families we have helped with safe water access
Other Initiatives & videos
Beyond our mission - The GROSCHE Safe Water Project, we keep trying to do our part to make the world a better place.
GROSCHE Banana Plantation
In 2016 we funded a social enterprise banana plantation in South Sudan. The goal was to build skills and knowledge to promote independence, food and income security. This is a short story of the impact it had on the people there.
The Philippines
A short video from our family visit to the GROSCHE Safe Water project in The Philippines.
In addition to installing Biosand water filters for safe water access, we are also installing latrines to provide sanitation access.
The latrines are built in the middle of a block of a few homes, allowing people to share their use and upkeep.
Women in these communities usually avoid going to the fields in the day due to safety risks of being undressed in the outdoors. Groups of women from a community usually go out in the middle of the night for safety. These community latrines allow them to access sanitation within the compounds of their homes or neighborhoods safely.
Open defecation is a leading cause the spread of infections from E.coli and other bacteria. By having secure latrines with access to water for sanitation, this risk of illness is controlled, leading to improved community health.
These latrines have a big impact on the health of the community, and on safety and hygiene. Since there is access to safe water from GROSCHE filters nearby, handwashing is also possible after using the facilities.
The approach we take to building the latrines is to find all the materials for them, and involve the community who will be using them to partake in building them. That gives them the pride of ownership of these facilities, as well as an understanding of how they work and how to take care of them. As a result our latrines have near 100% utilization and a direct impact on community well being.
Something as simple as being able to go to the bathroom safely with hygiene is a privilege for so many of us.
By funding and installing these toilets for communities in need we are making a difference.
Latrines and Sanitation
In addition to installing Biosand water filters for safe water access, we are also installing latrines to provide sanitation access.
The latrines are built in the middle of a block of a few homes, allowing people to share their use and upkeep.
A dire need, especially for women
Women in these communities usually avoid going to the fields in the day due to safety risks of being undressed in the outdoors. Groups of women from a community usually go out in the middle of the night for safety. These community latrines allow them to access sanitation within the compounds of their homes or neighborhoods safely.
Safety for children and families
Open defecation is a leading cause the spread of infections from E.coli and other bacteria. By having secure latrines with access to water for sanitation, this risk of illness is controlled, leading to improved community health.
A simple solution that changes lives
These latrines have a big impact on the health of the community, and on safety and hygiene. Since there is access to safe water from GROSCHE filters nearby, handwashing is also possible after using the facilities.
Community involvement
The approach we take to building the latrines is to find all the materials for them, and involve the community who will be using them to partake in building them. That gives them the pride of ownership of these facilities, as well as an understanding of how they work and how to take care of them. As a result our latrines have near 100% utilization and a direct impact on community well being.
Social Development
Something as simple as being able to go to the bathroom safely with hygiene is a privilege for so many of us.
By funding and installing these toilets for communities in need we are making a difference.