This collection is sponsored by WaterAid America, who is seeking to gather stories about the importance of WASH: having access to clean Water, Sanitation and Hygiene.
Two years ago, you got to meet the small and charming Caricia from Wawa Bar, a remote fishing community in Nicaragua. Back then she was just four years old and would help her mom collect ...
This International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples we want to celebrate some of the indigenous communities where we work. Meet Artipa. She’s a community leader in Patamana, an indigenous Wayuu community in the Guajira ...
I joined the Water Aid team while I was in college and now I help out with the communication efforts in Nicaragua and Colombia. WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) is not something people think about ...
I currently work as the Communications Manager for WaterAid’s U.S. office, based in New York. I talk about the importance of WASH on a daily basis, but it didn’t really hit home until I was ...
WaterAid stepped into Shamoli’s community and improved its tea gardens. The tea picker communities are typically the most marginalized group in Bangladesh due to its nomadic ancestry. As a result, tea plantation owners were responsible ...
For many years, the Kiomboi District Hospital had subpar hygiene and sanitation practices. This resulted in several infant deaths, water shortages and other biomedical issues. Fortunately, in 2015, WaterAid, in conjunction with SEMA (Sustainable Environment ...
Gonzaga, 12, understands the water in close proximity to his village is very unsanitary — people and animals often defecate near the source. Gonzaga hopes to be a doctor one day and to solve sanitation ...
Masibo Safinah, 52, is all smiles about the conveniently located water taps in her village. In the 1970s, she recalled having to walk two kilometers to get water at a local river. The task was ...
The Udayapur district, which is situated on the hillside, has established it as one of Nepal’s poorest water and sanitation coverage regions. However, Ammika, 48, and Hem Bahadur, 52, recently benefited from a sanitation system ...
The Moompo Village’s water well was hand dug by its forefathers. However, since then, the well has yielded substandard water. “Drinking water from the well always causes serious stomach pains,” said village resident Evelina Mukoswe, ...