From London to Sydney, Toronto to Timbuktu; cities from across the globe have been reimagined – using humble toilet rolls - in a special art work for WaterAid to mark World Toilet Day on Saturday 19 November. Armed with just a pair of scissors, glue and tweezers, artist Anastassia Elias has created ten mesmerising tiny [...]
WaterAid’s second-annual analysis of the world’s toilets, ‘Overflowing Cities,’ examines the state of city sanitation around the world, an issue becoming more pressing as two-thirds of the global population are expected to live in towns and cities by 2050. India ranks top for having the greatest number of urbanites living without a safe, private toilet— [...]
At WaterAid we love talking about toilets. We especially like to talk about how toilets save lives. This is why we're so happy to say that, for the first time ever, more than 6 in 10 of the world’s population now have access to a decent toilet. This is great progress. But we’re not done [...]
Schools are the center of communities and represent opportunity for the next generation – providing a better future for our children. But what if some schools and teachers don’t have what they need to keep children healthy and safe each day at school? What if students are expected to miss classes to collect water, sometimes [...]
Three year old Jebeh Nyagba is being checked by Isattu Jalloh, a health worker in the village of Vaama in Sierra Leone. People come to this clinic from surrounding village. The centre is quite basic, it has a few beds and two health workers. It has no electricity, clean water or proper sanitation facilities. It [...]
From September 16th to the 17th, Canada will host the Fifth Replenishment Conference of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Global Citizen Concert. During this conference, Canada and the world will come together to accelerate action toward ending three of the world’s most devastating diseases—AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. This is [...]
A year ago today, the first of two huge earthquakes hit Nepal. Together, they caused widespread destruction, setting back the country’s efforts at lifting its people out of poverty by years. It’s not an experience I find easy to recall. Now, as I look back, I realise I was petrified – in total shock as [...]
