This year, WaterAid will be participate in the International Congress of Midwives (ICM) and will host a pleanary panel session: "Clean Water: The missing ingredient. Local, national and global perspectives on making water, sanitation and hygiene available at birth." Participants will discuss the question: How can midwives be expected to delivery quality care without clean water? [...]
Teenage girls in a small rural village in Nepal have used the power of photography to help bust the menstrual myths that have imposed many unnecessary restrictions on their lives. Last year, the girls used cameras for the first time to provide a fascinating look into what life was like for them during their period. Studying, [...]
Over two-thirds of women feel uncomfortable openly carrying their sanitary products to the washroom in public, and around half wouldn’t feel confident telling their dad about period pain, according to new research released by WaterAid Canada. The international charity asked over 1,000 adults aged 18 and over from across Canada about their attitudes towards menstruation [...]
Two years after the devastating earthquake in Nepal, a community in the village of Kharelthok has completed their work to rebuild the water facilities that were destroyed in the disaster. The earthquake killed nearly 9,000 people, injured nearly 22,000, and flattened entire villages. Since that devastating day, WaterAid has helped transform more than 20,000 lives thanks [...]
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene are essential to achieving the SDGs: What is the role of governments and donors in ensuring they are available to all? Hosted by Global Affairs Canada A keynote address by Ms. Catarina de Albuquerque former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to safe drinking water and sanitation, and current Executive [...]
It’s been a life-changing year in Chandaka, Malawi. A water pump was installed giving 34 households access to clean water overnight. Since then the village has gone from strength to strength. Little over a year ago the people of Chandaka had no clean water supply, relying on dirty river water to drink, cook and wash [...]
This week Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, are in Antananarivo, Madagascar, for the 2016 Francophonie Summit. WaterAid Canada's CEO, Nicole Hurtubise writes about the water and sanitation crises in Madagascar and the opportunity the Summit presents for Canada to to champion the human right to water and [...]
I was taken aback by my own reaction; my breath stopped and my tears started to flow down my face. I couldn’t quite understand why I would react in this way. I have been working in international development for 12 years. It didn’t take me long to understand. I realized it was because I had [...]
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