Postcards from the field
Recent postcards from the field
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Outputs-based Aid helping poor households to build a toilet in Cambodia
Until midway through 2016, Chan and her children had no toilet and were forced to use the rice paddies and bush near their home. But then they were visited by an official from the Provincial Department of Rural Development that is being supported by Thrive Networks, and she was convinced to construct a toilet.
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A positive Memory: how school life is better with improved sanitation
Memory Makiwen is 15 years old and would like to become a nurse one day. She’s the head girl prefect at Mangazi School in Phalombe District, southern Malawi. Memory is one of the 861 girls that make up the 1,752 student population. Until today, Memory and her fellow female students were obliged to share just eight pit latrines. There were no handwashing facilities, and no wash rooms. Because of this, senior girls have mostly stayed at home during menstruation.
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Inclusive WASH Committees - Many Impacts
Through the Civil Society WASH project with IFRC Bangladesh, Golap is working hard to bring about changes in his community. Golap suffered from polio and lives with a disability. As a proud member of the WASH committee he has seen the community improve beyond its imagination.
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Poor households in Cambodia adopting improved sanitation
Australia’s Civil Society WASH Fund is funding Thrive Networks in Cambodia to pilot an innovative Outputs-based Aid (OBA) approach to improving sanitation. The idea is that poor households receive a rebate once they can prove that they’ve constructed a toilet with handwashing facilities to the required standard. The project is achieving amazing results with poor households in two provinces adopting improved sanitation and hygiene and unprecedented rates.
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Women in water point committees in Malawi
“We suffered for so long without decent water. We will do all we can to keep this system operational. We’ve been trained to do simple repairs, collect tariffs, account for the finances and organise the community. We know who to call if there are technical problems we can’t solve. We challenge that if you come back in years from now you will find our system working”, says water committee member working with United Purpose in Malawi
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Individual Household Water Supply Connection: Changing the Lives of Families
World Vision Lanka is reducing the heavy load of carrying water, particularly for women, through household water connections in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Through advocacy they have helped reduce the household water connection tariff making connections more affordable.
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Simple Smartphone Technology for E.coli Monitoring and Water Safety Planning in Low Resource Setting
WaterAid Papua New Guinea is working with local NGO partner Tenkile Conservation Alliance (TCA) using mWater ICT to manage water quality data collection and reporting for rainwater systems.
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Yes!! Women - We Can Do It
WASH Wizards are locally trained plumbers who assist households in their communities with everyday plumbing advice and solutions. Hazvinei is a widow with 3 children who has been trained as a Wizard by the Welthungerhilfe SELF project in Chegutu, a small town in Zimbabwe, and now assists households. As a result her income has increased.
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So, how does one break the silence on menstruation? Positively
SNV Bhutan - together with government partners - have been collaborating with a creative agency, the Centre of Gravity to undertake research to inform a campaign strategy to break the silence and promote safe menstrual hygiene management practices amongst girls in schools and nunneries. The communication strategy being developed will seek to work with these motives to build positive stories, engaging peers and role models in the process and to use branding to frame the experience of menstruation for girls and women in a positive light - as un-stoppable.
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