WaterAid’s ‘Caught Short’ report reveals how a lack of toilets and clean water are major contributors to malnutrition.

On August 18, 2016, WaterAid Canada staff called hundreds of supporters with a very special message.

Aveda Canada’s 2016 Earth Month campaign was an incredible success raising $548,000. Thank you to all Aveda employees across Canada who have helped transform lives.

Earlier this year, WaterAid implemented a gravity-fed water supply and treatment system for St Paul Primary School in Fenoarivo village, Madagascar. The water comes from a naturally occurring mountain spring that is transported using the force of gravity to different water points in the village and to the school’s water point.

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 [...]

https://youtu.be/72fn8vRppPo The 2016 Aveda Earth Month campaign marks the first of a three-year fundraising commitment toward funding clean water access in the communes of Belavabary and Sabotsy Anjiro. Over the next three years, Aveda’s network across Canada (which includes 700 corporately - and client-owner locations), will be achieving 100% water coverage in Belavabary and [...]

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson shows off the official proclamation for World Plumbing Day, which was celebrated this year with the first National Water Wise Award presented to Nicole Hurtubise, CEO of WaterAid Canada by Claude Des Rosiers on behalf of the Canadian Institute of Plumbing and Heating. OTTAWA - To celebrate World Plumbing [...]

In 1972 Barbara Frost left Keele University after two years studying psychology and social sciences, and went on what was intended to be a gap year. She took the so-called magic bus to Istanbul, continued by public transport on the hippy trail to India and Nepal, and ended up living in a commune in Australia. [...]

Viewers of England's One Born Every Minute television show will be familiar with the joy, agony, beauty and, sometimes, the tragedy of childbirth. The long-running documentary series has shown that midwives' jobs can be as tough as they are rewarding. But the environment that specialists like Cheryl Stanley and Delia Jepson work in – clean hospitals [...]

Do you know what your core body temperature is? Mine is 36.2°C, give or take minor fluctuations. I know this not because I am a hypochondriac, but because it was taken countless times each day during my recent trip to Liberia and Sierra Leone – at army road blocks every few miles, at the entrance [...]