As the new secretary of a water and sanitation committee in the slums of Dhaka, Bashona has gone from busy housewife to inspirational community leader.

As a child, Fatoumata lived without safe water, so understands well the challenges faced by the communities she now serves as our Country Representative in Mali.

Broken handpumps are no longer a problem for villages in the Mahoba region of India, served by Ram Rati and the rest of a team of handpump mechanics trained by WaterAid.