WaterAid Tanzania, together with Amref Health Africa Tanzania, has launched a four-year project (March 2016-March 2020) titled Canada-Africa Initiative to Address Maternal, Newborn and Child Mortality (CAIA-MNCM), in Geita and Nyang’hwale districts of Geita region in Tanzania. Funded by the Government of Canada through Global Affairs Canada at 8.3 million, this is part of a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The evidence clearly shows that sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene is essential for protecting the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations and helping them reach their potential. In May 2016, Marie Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophone, launched public consultations for the Government of Canada’s international assistance review. Through the consultations, Minister [...]
