Tagged: Water, sanitation and hygiene

A girl washing her hands

One hand washes the other…for better health

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The practice of hand washing is simple, so simple it sometimes goes unnoticed. Maybe it’s because it has rarely crosses people’s minds that our hands can serve as a reservoir for numerous microorganisms. They can be transmitted by direct contact with contaminated skin or objects, and through surfaces from contaminated environments,… Read more →←
Smiling boy stands in front of a building

Fighting cholera in Haiti after Hurricane Matthew

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Seven hours on the road, or rather on a rocky trail that renders one grateful for a solid back and stomach, to Pestel. All along our way to the town, one of the areas where a significant increase in diarrhea cases has been registered over the past week, we pass destroyed houses and trees. People in front of their homes, stranded. Some… Read more →←

A new day in Qayyarah, Iraq

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The Iraqi army retook control of Qayyarah from armed groups on August 28. A day later, UNICEF took part in a mission to assess the needs of families living there. It’s the first time in two years that the United Nations has reached a town that’s been under the control of armed groups.  There are 15,000 people in Qayyarah, as well… Read more →←
A boy with a jerry can in a town square.

Keeping water flowing in Aleppo

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Meet Maher. Maher is in Syria and for almost two years he has led UNICEF’s water, sanitation and hygiene work in Aleppo. The lives of millions of people in Aleppo and beyond depend on him and his team. This week, we sat down with Maher and asked him what it’s like to work in Aleppo and to provide water and sanitation in a city under… Read more →←
A young girl with her chin in her hand looks at the camera.

Be a Thinker

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What does a toilet mean to you? On 19 November for World Toilet Day, think about what it would be like if you didn’t have a toilet and had to go out in the open. Think about the 1 in every 8 people who don’t use a toilet and who go out in fields, in the bushes or on the side of the street. Think about the 800 of children who die… Read more →←
Kadiatu Konteh (left), an Ebola Survivor, delivers water, supplied by UNICEF, for villagers under Ebola quarantine

Ebola survivors deliver water as Sierra Leone pushes to zero

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Quarantining an entire community to stamp out a new case of Ebola requires a complex operation to reduce the strain for residents who suddenly find themselves behind an orange plastic barrier. And in rural Sierra Leone there are additional challenges – in normal times food is often bought on a day-to-day basis from a nearby market,… Read more →←
School children in India wash their hands prior to the mid-day meals.

5 things you need to know about sanitation & drinking water

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2015 is the deadline for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and it is also a time to reflect on progress made during the MDG era. The MDGs challenged the global community to halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation between 1990 and 2015. The WHO/UNICEF… Read more →←

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