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Tagged: Water, sanitation and hygiene

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A young lady squatting on the ground as she uses a hose to fill water into two jerrycans.

Searching for clean water in Gaza

A young lady squatting on the ground as she uses a hose to fill water into two jerrycans.
Children in emergencies

By Gregor von Medeazza

Story also available in: Español العربية Français 中文

Searching for clean water in Gaza

There is no simple narrative about water and sanitation in the State of Palestine. It’s one about Gaza, the West Bank, and multiple contexts within each. But for a child – or a family — it’s access to safe water and sanitation that ultimately matters. That’s why, after three years working in the State of Palestine, I wanted to… Read more →←
A smiling girl holding a red bucket filled with water stands at the doorway of a wooden walled toilet, with two other girls looking in.

When nature calls, where do you go?

A smiling girl holding a red bucket filled with water stands at the doorway of a wooden walled toilet, with two other girls looking in.
Big picture

By Philippa Lysaght

When nature calls, where do you go?

When you get that feeling … when you can’t hold it any longer and you just have to go … where do you do it? I grew up in Australia and remember spending summers in the outback. When nature called, I would have to use an outhouse — a long drop toilet in a tiny shed in the backyard. I would go as quickly as possible, terrified that… Read more →←
Top view of some young boys and girls using an outdoor water tap.

Revolutionizing toilets: China leads the way

Top view of some young boys and girls using an outdoor water tap.
Experts speak

By Kelly Ann Naylor

Story also available in: 中文

Revolutionizing toilets: China leads the way

The future depends on what we do in the present. Mahatma Gandhi’s words floated through my mind as my flight landed in Beijing. I had a full schedule ahead of me, focused on initiatives that could make the current global sanitation crisis a thing of the past. There’s a toilet revolution in China and it’s not difficult to understand… Read more →←
School children line behind one another. The child at the head of the line washes his hands at a tap attached to a large black plastic container.

Clean hands: A recipe for good health

School children line behind one another. The child at the head of the line washes his hands at a tap attached to a large black plastic container.
Experts speak

By Philippa Lysaght

Story also available in: 中文

Clean hands: A recipe for good health

One of my fondest memories from South Sudan was seeing an enormous queue of children fill a playground at a school in Yambio. Children, some as young as 4 or 5, were lining up to wash their hands before the midday meal. The really young ones were so hungry for lunch they were crying. But no one broke ranks in the queue to wash their… Read more →←
A man in a blue shirt smiling as he carries a swaddled baby

Not all heroes wear capes

A man in a blue shirt smiling as he carries a swaddled baby
Insider

By Philippa Lysaght

Not all heroes wear capes

Humanitarians never think of themselves as heroes. Most of the humanitarians I’ve met consider themselves lucky to be to able help provide relief to people in need. Many humanitarians working in conflicts put their own lives at risk to support people – sometimes entire communities or cities – who are in urgent need of assistance.… Read more →←
Two girls, carrying cans, walk away from the camera, down a dusty road.

Water is…a childhood

Two girls, carrying cans, walk away from the camera, down a dusty road.
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By Philippa Lysaght

Story also available in: Français

Water is…a childhood

When a child has access to clean drinking water close to home, they have a chance to go to school, to learn, to play with their friends and to have a childhood. Yet today, around 2.1 billion people don’t have access to safe water. Many children spend hours every day walking to collect water, sometimes missing out on a chance to go to… Read more →←
A baby lies on colorful blankets with a hand patting.

Their lives in our hands

A baby lies on colorful blankets with a hand patting.
Big picture

By Philippa Lysaght

Story also available in: Français

Their lives in our hands

In the first few seconds of life, a newborn baby should be delivered and held in clean hands. As a baby enters the world, one of the simplest ways we can protect them is to make sure they are delivered in a clean environment. New mothers are also vulnerable, and require the same cleanliness to reduce the risk of disease and infection.… Read more →←
A girl in a yellow shirt stands in front of a pile of hurricane wreckage

No calm after the storm for the Caribbean’s poorest children

A girl in a yellow shirt stands in front of a pile of hurricane wreckage
Children in emergencies

By Manuel Moreno González

No calm after the storm for the Caribbean’s poorest children

In Grand Turk Island, the capital island of the Turks and Caicos, 14-year-old Danessa Estime writes rap lyrics in her notebook about the night Hurricane Irma battered the island: “Wake up, wake up! But 5:32? Why the hell am I waking up at 5:32? Ma, what’s going on? What do you want me to do? Did something happen to be up at 5:32? She… Read more →←
Five people gaze at a mudslide.

In Sierra Leone mudslides rip a community apart

Five people gaze at a mudslide.
Children in emergencies

By John James

Story also available in: Español Français

In Sierra Leone mudslides rip a community apart

If Ebola was an emergency based around a tiny virus that often killed before it was discovered, the deep brown gash on a Freetown hillside is a sign of a disaster of a very different nature. Like Rio de Janiero on the other side of the Atlantic, Sierra Leone’s capital is built on spectacular coastal hills, and is overshadowed by a… Read more →←
A young man in a purple tee shirt stands as he pumps water

Safe water transforms a community in unexpected ways

A young man in a purple tee shirt stands as he pumps water
Children in emergencies

By Christophe Belandombi

Story also available in: Français

Safe water transforms a community in unexpected ways

The conflict in the Central African Republic follows a line that is the boundary between the savannah and the tropical interior of Central Africa. On that line is Bossangoa, a city at the centre of a range of conflicts that gripped the country in 2013 and 2014. Residents fled to displacements camps and across the border to Cameroon and… Read more →←
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