Welcome

The Good Earth Trust is a UK registered charity currently working in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.

We believe that all people should have access to decent housing, clean water and proper sanitation. The reality is that billions of people live in extremely poor housing conditions, both in urban slums and rural villages.

Often the burden of water collection is left to women and children who spend hours and walk far distances to fetch water.

Good Earth knows that life doesn’t have to be like this - appropriate technologies exist that could meet the very basic human needs of construction, water and sanitation.

Our vision is of a world in which low-income people can access technology that improves their wellbeing and livelihoods whilst preserving and enhancing their environment.

We currently focus on a simple low-cost technology that can help people improve their housing whilst greatly reducing the impact on their environment. The technology uses interlocking compressed stabilised earth blocks for construction of houses, schools, clinics, water tanks and latrines. It uses local talent and materials, improves people's living conditions, supports local small-scale business and has significant environmental benefit.

The technology has huge potential - it can improve housing for millions of people, savings hundreds of millions of dollars, tens of millions of trees and millions of tonnes of CO2.