Clean hands for every child.
Rensa Foundation delivers ready-to-use antiseptic hand cleanser to children's homes and orphanages, starting in India, in partnership with Garonit Pharmaceutical.
Made in India, for children in India.
Made in India, for children in India.
Nothing crosses an ocean. The antiseptic is donated at the source, formulated and bottled in India under our label, and delivered by people who know each home by name.
Source
Pharmaceutical-grade chlorhexidine (CHG) from Garonit's supply network, donated to Rensa.
Formulate
A licensed manufacturer in India produces the finished 2% hand cleanser.
Package
Filled and labeled as Rensa in India, with full batch and expiry marking.
Deliver
An on-ground team identifies children's homes, confirms what each site needs, and delivers.
Hospital-grade protection, made gentle for small hands.
Chlorhexidine is the antiseptic used in operating rooms worldwide. We formulate it for children on purpose, guided by WHO's own hand hygiene evidence.
It keeps working after the water stops
Chlorhexidine binds to skin and keeps suppressing germs after rinsing. WHO calls this its significant residual activity, and it is why hospitals rely on it.
2%, not the 4% surgical strength
WHO notes 4% formulations are the most likely to irritate skin with frequent use. Children in a home wash many times a day, so Rensa uses 2%: nearly the same protection, far kinder to skin. Source: WHO hand hygiene guidelines.
Use-strength only, always
Concentrate never reaches a child. Only finished, labeled, batch-marked bottles at use strength leave the manufacturer, with eye-contact cautions printed on every label.
Hygiene is cheapest where it's needed, and still missing.
Hand hygiene is one of the most effective ways to stop infection from spreading. It is missing exactly where children live closest together: orphanages and children's homes sit on no one's supply route. Rensa gives them one, a dedicated pipeline from an antiseptic manufacturer to the sinks and hands that need it.
Behind those numbers: 1.7 billion people still lack basic hygiene services at home, and in India close to 100,000 children under five die from diarrhoea each year. The tools to prevent this are cheap and proven. They just rarely reach institutional homes.
See what we're doing about it →Prove it small. Then let the playbook travel.
First partner, Hyderabad
Our first partner cares for children affected by HIV across two homes in Hyderabad. Their need is confirmed: about thirty 500 ml bottles a month. A licensed Indian manufacturer is being selected now, and the pilot opens with a few months of supply. Bottles delivered, sites served, children reached: tracked from day one.
Verify, then commit the year
Two to three months in, we check everything: deliveries, storage, daily use, what the caregivers say. A short public report follows. When the pilot runs clean, production steps up to a full year of supply for our first partner.
Scale the playbook
Two more children's homes in Hyderabad are next in line, then more of India, then Africa: the same demand-driven model, carried by partners on the ground.
Why I started Rensa
I'm Rey Garg. I've spent two summers working inside Garonit Pharmaceutical, a global manufacturer of chlorhexidine, the antiseptic hospitals run on. One summer in business development, the next across sales, product qualifications, and GMP documentation.
Somewhere in that second summer it clicked: the antiseptic leaving those plants protects patients on five continents, and almost none of it reaches children in homes and orphanages, the places where infection spreads fastest and budgets are thinnest.
I had also spent more than a hundred hours teaching Taekwondo to kids. Rensa is where the two met. We take the antiseptic hospitals trust, have it formulated gently enough for a child's hands, and deliver it free to homes no supply route serves.
The name comes from the Swedish rensa, to cleanse.
Rey Garg, Founder & Executive Director
Mission
Deliver free, child-safe antiseptic hand cleanser to children's homes and orphanages, and teach the habits that make it count. Starting in India.
Vision
Clean hands for every child growing up in care, in India, in Africa, and beyond.
How we operate
A three-trustee adult board governs Rensa. Arrangements with our supply partners are documented, reviewed by disinterested trustees, and made at no cost or better-than-market terms to Rensa, under our conflict of interest policy.
Partner with us
Run a children's home in India that needs reliable hand hygiene? Manufacture licensed antiseptic products? Want to support the pilot? We answer every message.
Write to usWhat to include
If you run or work with a children's home: the institution's name, city, roughly how many children live there, and whether soap or cleanser is available today. Two lines is plenty. We reply to every note.