Postcards from the field
Recent postcards from the field
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Australian High Commissioner visits Chakwal
On Tuesday 31 October 2017, the Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan, Ms Margaret Adamson inaugurated the successful completion of a drinking water supply and wastewater treatment construction and repair in Bullay Bala, Chakwal, Punjab Province as part of Plan Pakistan's Fund project.
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Three pits are better than one?
Save the Children International (SCI) is implementing a WASH project in the centrally located Kani Township of Myanmar. The project involves an integrated approach to village water scheme development, improved household sanitation and hygiene promotion.
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Collaboration with relevant WASH stakeholders fosters enabling environment
Poor collaboration between stakeholders in Malawi’s WASH sector results too often in duplication of interventions, lost opportunities and wasted resources. United Purpose's approach to collaboration and partnerships, specifically working with and through the local government, has spurred other organisations to adopt a more collaborative approach.
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Celebrating Our Hands, Our Future on Global Handwashing Day in Bangladesh, October 15, 2017
Global Handwashing Day was celebrated by Community Development Initiative Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (CDI WASH) project implemented by Bangladesh Red Crescent Society and over 1,000 people joined in parades, handwashing demonstrations and discussions on this year’s theme: Our Hands, Our Future. The focus was on reinforcing and increasing knowledge of the benefits and practice of handwashing and how this helps build a positive future.
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Masud's Spirit of Change
Masud Rana is a WASH champion in the Paddmapurkur village, Bangladesh. Two years ago many people in his village had no knowledge about sanitation and hygiene issues, and suffered chronic diseases like diarrhoea, typhoid, stomach pain, and dysentery. When the Community Development Initiative (CDI) 2 WASH project was developed by the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BRCS), funded by CS-WASH, Masud joined the Community Disaster Response Team and received training in hygiene and sanitation transformation.
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Drinking water safely - addressing the arsenic menace in Bangladesh
Last year, under the Community Development Initiative 2 WASH project, funded through CS-WASH, Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BRCS) promoted a local technology the ‘SONO filter’ which reduces the rate of arsenic and excessive iron from water to an acceptable level.
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OBA in Action
During a recent Monitoring, Evaluation and Review Panel monitoring trip to Vietnam, we visited Tra Vinh Province in the Mekong Delta where Thrive’s CS WASH Fund project is helping the government to extend water supply networks to households in areas affected by salinity intrusion. With Thrive's assistance 6,700 metres of pipe were laid and 385 households connected to the network with the Provincial government also committing a similiar level of investment.
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The three 'H's: Home-made soap, handwashing and hygiene
Community wellbeing in Mtoliwa village has improved following a transformation in the community's sanitation and hygiene practices. With support from United Purpose the community has built toilets and handwashing facilities and now makes soap from the local Jatropha tree seeds so that community members can wash their hands with soap.
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A community with clean water
Thuthuwa, a village in Traditional Authority Nkhulambe in Malawi, borders Mozambique. Its residents used to face great challenges in accessing safe water. The community relied on unprotected shallow wells and other unhygienic water sources from Mozambique. With the help of United Purpose a borehole was drilled, which brought jubilation to the community. Now all the suffering that the community faced due the absence of safe water is history.
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A sitting toilet puts an end to open defecation on the family farm
Mr Phum Min lives in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province with his wife and children. When he was in the military, he lost his right foot in a black powder explosion. Since then, he has had to save money for regular medical treatments and medicine. In early 2017, iDE’s sanitation program visited Min’s village to promote a latrine shelter that could be adapted for people with disabilities. His family decided to buy the shelter and sitting toilet right away.
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Championing Hygiene - from Schools to Community
Mousumi is an indigenous student in year 9 in Rangpur District, Bangladesh. Before the introduction of the Children’s Hygiene and Sanitation Training (CHAST) sessions, Mousumi had little concern about her own, or others, hygiene. Since participating in CHAST Mousumi is now recognised as the CHAST Champion for her school and within her community.
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Bhutan's first Faecal Sludge Treatment Plant
The people of Samtse town will see an end to unsafe dumping of faecal sludge on their land and rivers with the commissioning of the first ever faecal sludge treatment plant for Bhutan in August 2017. The plant is one of three low cost sanitation options being developed as part of a Waste Water Management Plan through a long-term collaboration between the Ministry of Works and Human Settlement and SNV and supported by the Australian Government.
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