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Spring/Summer 2015
Your WaterAid magazine
Water 365
Providing safe water
today… and every day
Ebola
Read an update
from West Africa
2015 – a crucial year
Help everyone, everywhere
get taps and toilets by 2030
Welcome to Oasis
Dear WaterAid supporter,
And to really change people’s
behaviours, so they practise good
hygiene such as handwashing
with soap, we need to understand
what motivates them – whether
it’s improved health, social status,
convenience or comfort.
2015 is a big year. World leaders will be
WaterAid/Abir Abdullah
gathering at the UN General Assembly
in September to decide a new set of
Sustainable Development Goals. It’s vital
that clean water and toilets are central
to these goals to ensure everyone,
everywhere has access by 2030. You
Every time we leave a community with can help by adding your name to our
safe water and toilets, we’re one step petition. Please do complete and return
closer to ending the global water and the enclosed postcard.
sanitation crisis. Ensuring the world’s poorest people
But to really transform lives and have these basic services is not easy,
give today’s children the future they but it is possible with your ongoing
deserve we must ensure our work is support. Thank you so much for sharing
made to last. our vision of a world where everyone
As well as using the right technology has clean water, sanitation and hygiene
and training communities to use it, we not just today, but every day, long into
must ensure the necessary management the future.
and delivery systems are in place. We
do this by engaging partners, service
providers and local governments, and
calling on national leaders to prioritise
clean water, toilets and hygiene. Barbara Frost, Chief Executive
2 Oasis Spring/Summer 2015
For more stories and to join the conversation,
visit www.wateraid.org or find us on
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
News in brief • Downton Abbey actor Hugh Bonneville
is WaterAid’s new ambassador.
Together with a panel of international
film directors, Hugh will be judging
our sH2Orts film competition for World
Water Day on 22 March.
www.wateraid.org/sh2orts
• In the face of challenging conditions,
our teams in West Africa are fighting
the spread of Ebola with life-saving
handwashing and hygiene promotion.
Find out more on p14.
Did you know?
• Each copy of Oasis costs just 6p to produce plus P&P – we think it’s well worth it
to share with you how your support is changing lives. However, if you’d prefer to
hear about our work by email, please visit www.wateraid.org/uk/emailme
• In every £1 we spend, 77p is spent on delivering services, campaigning for
change and supporting other WaterAid member countries, and 23p
on fundraising and governance.*
• For every £1 we spend on fundraising, £4.64 is returned in income.*
WaterAid, 47-49 Durham Street, London SE11 5JD T: 020 7793 4594
Registered charity numbers 288701 (England and Wales) and SC039479 (Scotland)
Cover image: Minounyou Nadege, 19, carries jerrycans and her baby son, Abdul, to a local
borehole to collect water, Imbina, Burkino Faso.
Cover photo credit: WaterAid/Panos/Andrew McConnell
* Annual Report 2013/14 Oasis Spring/Summer 2015 3
Burkina Faso
Hawa’s journey
Ensuring people have access to you have a wash, your skin becomes
clean, safe water all year round whitish and dry. We get spots on our
can be extremely challenging. skin. My baby has these.’
On a recent trip to Burkina Faso, While this water poses a clear threat
Meriel Armson, our Special to the health of Hawa and her family,
Projects Manager, saw for herself in the dry season these ponds dry out
the difficulties families face in the and the situation becomes even more
dry season. desperate. She has no choice but to
walk to a water pump so far from home
the trip can take the best part of a day.
She said, ‘I have gone there in the
early morning and waited until noon.
I might need to go three times. It is
such a waste of time. How do you
complete your daily activities?’
Hawa and her husband Inoussa,
38, are farmers. But in the dry
season they don’t have enough
“Just last year, I visited the village water for their animals to drink and
of Nabitenga in Burkina Faso and so some of them die. With fewer
had the pleasure of talking to Hawa, animals to sell, they have less
a 37-year-old mother of seven. On a money to support their family and to
blisteringly hot day, she took me to buy essential items like medicine.
a milky pond filled with insects and In the coming months we will be
small frogs – her daily water source sharing our plans to bring clean, safe
as the nearest pump is too far away. water to Hawa’s village with the help
She told me, ‘You can see that the of supporters like you.
water from the hole is whitish. When But ensuring this supply is available
4 Oasis Spring/Summer 2015
To find out how you can help change lives for good,
visit www.wateraid.org/uk/burkinafaso2015
“The water from the
hole is whitish. We get
spots on our skin.
My baby has these.”
Photos: WaterAid/Panos/Andrew McConnell
Hawa, 37, collects dirty water from an
unprotected source, Burkina Faso.
365 days a year will take more than their water resource. This innovative
the right technology. We will be project will help ensure Hawa and her
working with the community to give family have the water they need not
them the skills to become water just when the taps are turned on, but
experts and monitor and manage every day of their lives.”
Oasis Spring/Summer 2015 5
Campaigns
2015: be part of a big year for
people, planet and politics
In May, the UK will go to the polls to and hygiene a
The
elect a new government. Whatever global priority
Sustainable
the result, we expect at least one in for the very Development Goals
four MPs to be newly elected. first time. will be internationally
Those new MPs will play a hugely You’ve agreed 15-year targets
important role in shaping the world’s been with for ending extreme
international development priorities us since the poverty by 2030.
for the next 15 years. They will beginning of
help influence the outcome of the the campaign, and
Sustainable Development Goals, thanks to your support one of the
to be decided at the UN General 17 draft goals revealed earlier this
Assembly in September. year is on water and sanitation – this
We are joining 1,000 other is a tremendous success, but we’re
organisations worldwide in the not there yet. The goals could be cut
action/2015 coalition, to call on down in the final negotiations over the
decision-makers to ensure that the next few months, so your signature is
new goals really transform the lives more important than ever.
of the world’s poorest people.
Part of this action is the final Please return the enclosed
push for our three-year Everyone, petition postcard by World Water
everywhere 2030 campaign, which Day on 22 March to add your name
aims to make safe water, sanitation to our petition.
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Order your free guide to uncovering the story of your own taps
and toilets at www.wateraid.org/uk/bighistoryproject
Today we take our
toilets and running
granted, but how did water for
they come about? By
the history of your local exploring
area, you can help Wate
piece together the story rAid
of water and sanitation
the UK in a way that in
has never been done
before.
2015 marks 150 years
since the first mod
sewer system was ern
opened in London,
what happened next but
? How did taps and
become things you’d toilets
never imagine findi
house in Britain witho ng a
ut? And how did our
change as a result? lives
We’re campaigning
for everyone, ever
to have clean wate ywhere
r and safe toilets
history can show – our
politicians how it
done. But we need can be
your help uncoverin
the stories behind g
our own journey to
universal access.
When Queen Victoria came to
the throne, only half of London’s
infants lived to their fifth birthday.
Diseases such as cholera were
rife. That all changed thanks to
47-49 Durham Stree
WaterAid’s Big Hi
the opening of the UK’s first major
t
London SE11 5JD
sto
Front cover image
Your guide to unco ry Project:
: A comment on
the London water
UK supply
reappearance of choler during the
ve
of toilets and taps ring the story
a in 1848 and
1849. The title of the
sewer exactly 150 years go.
www.wateraid.org misquote from the
cartoon is a
Coleridge Rhyme
UK: Registered charity
numbers 288701
(England and Wales)
and SC039479 (Scotlan
d)
of the Ancient Marine
Punch magazine,
r,
1849. in your local area
Courtesy of Westminster
City Archives.
Take part in our Big History
Project and what you discover
will show the new government
how taps and toilets dramatically
improved our health and
productivity. Help us motivate
them to ensure the lives of the
world’s poorest people are
transformed in the same way.
A drop of London water, as imagined by a
Punch artist, 1850. Westminster City Archives
Oasis Spring/Summer 2015 7
Technology
Handpumps
A
ccess to clean, Once a handpump is in occur, so it’s important
safe water place, our local partners that local governments
close to home train the community and service providers
transforms lives in to maintain it and set are on hand to offer
the world’s poorest up a water committee support.
communities. The best to collect appropriate Only if all these
technology to deliver fees. This money elements are in place
this water depends on is used to pay for can handpumps
the local context, but ongoing maintenance. continue providing a
handpumps are often Communities often reliable source of safe
the simplest, most need assistance when drinking water long after
affordable solution. major breakdowns they are installed.
Juliana Mwemedi, 45, lives
near the handpump WaterAid
installed in the village of
Namarika, Niassa, Mozambique.
She says, “In the past we had to
travel a long way for water and it
WaterAid/Panos/Adam Patterson
was dirty. There were insects in
it and during the dry season we
had to queue. There is not much
diarrhoea anymore.”
See the handpump in
action on p10-11.
8 Oasis Spring/Summer 2015
Read more about the handpump technologies
we use at www.wateraid.org/technology
A handpump design must This is an India Mk II The handpump draws
be chosen that meets the handpump, made from clean, safe water from
needs of the community corrosion-resistant materials. deep below the ground.
and is appropriate for
the local context.
Illustration by: peter-mac.com
Oasis Spring/Summer 2015 9
Safe water transforming lives in Mozambique 10 Oasis Spring/Summer 2015
Since the pump was installed in Namarika, Niassa, there have been fewer
health problems for people like Angelita, Ayessi and her children. Take a
virtual journey to Mozambique at www.childofmine.wateraid.org
WaterAid/Panos/Adam Patterson
Oasis Spring/Summer 2015 11A foundation for the future 250,000 of the world’s poorest students will benefit from safe toilets and clean water thanks to the H&M Conscious Foundation’s partnership with WaterAid. These basics are creating new opportunities for pupils, and girls in particular. Bobicho Elementary and High when the school lacked adequate School didn’t have safe, private facilities. Queues for just four toilets toilets or a reliable clean water were often too long for pupils to supply. The pupils’ learning suffered. go in their 15 minute breaks, and Melese Abaka, Vice Director of they suffered cramps and lacked the school, said, “The children’s concentration as a result. The concentration and participation girls’ toilets were not private so slackened on days when there was they did not use them as much as no water in the school, and that was they needed to. Menstrual hygiene every other day.” management was very difficult Twice a week the Sanitation and for the girls. Hygiene Club’s 56 volunteers would To address these problems, with clean the old school toilets. But the our partners we have now built two club’s efforts could only go so far toilet blocks with handwashing 12 Oasis Spring/Summer 2015
To find out more about how this partnership is changing lives, visit
www.wateraid.org/uk/hmconsciousfoundation
“I wish there was
more water in
school. When I
leave the toilet I turn
the tap on, but it
doesn’t have water.
If we don’t wash, our
hands would smell
bad and that creates
parasites and they
create diseases.”
Yemisrach, seven, one of the
girls who will benefit from
the new toilets at Bobicho
WaterAid/Behailu Shiferaw
Elementary and High School,
Hossaena, Ethiopia.
facilities for girls and disabled big difference, “If you don’t provide
students. We also installed a supply girls with a conducive environment
of clean water for the pupils to drink in which they can manage their
and keep themselves and their menstrual hygiene, they choose not
school clean. to come to school. How can they be
Demekech Habte, Girls Club competitive with the boys? I think
Head, thinks that the new supply that is where the new project will
of water for washing will make a help us the most.”
Oasis Spring/Summer 2015 13Voice from the field
Face to face with Ebola
Chuchu Selma, WaterAid’s Programme Manager for
Liberia and Sierra Leone, looks at why investing in long-
term water, sanitation and hygiene improvements are
vital for helping West Africa – and the world – recover
from the devastating impact of Ebola.
Mamie Kamara washes baby
Alhaji in safe, clean water,
Fayama, Sierra Leone.
“Everyone must
invest in safe
water, toilets and
handwashing
education – no
nation can face
down a virus like
Ebola without them.”
14 Oasis Spring/Summer 2015To read Chuchu’s update in full, visit www.wateraid.org/uk/ebola
“From my home in Liberia’s capital, Sierra Leone, our infrastructures
Monrovia, I see two sides to the Ebola were decimated. Basic water and
story. From the outside, the world sanitation services were, and in many
has only just begun to wake up to the cases still are, non-existent.
crisis. But here, we have been facing it Hospitals are no different. Patients
for nearly a year already. have to bring water in jerrycans. Ebola
The outbreak threatens everything spreads through bodily fluids – blood,
we have worked for since 14 vomit, faeces – and in Monrovia,
years of civil war ended in 2003. even the hospitals contributed to the
In 2009, when WaterAid resumed epidemic, in part through their poor
work in Liberia and neighbouring sanitation and lack of hygiene.
But despite the bleak headlines
there are signs of progress. Health
WaterAid/Anna Kari
workers are risking their lives to stop
this disease. Stories of survivors fill
Thank you to the airwaves, encouraging others
everyone who
signed our urgent into treatment centres early, showing
petition asking world that Ebola is not always an automatic
leaders to do more death sentence.
on Ebola. Yet of the hundreds of millions of
dollars now being sought to contain
Ebola, little to none of it will help with
longer-term solutions. Nobody should
see this as a West African problem
alone. This is a global problem and
requires a global response.”
Your support is helping our teams in Sierra Leone and Liberia to fight
Ebola, redesigning long-term programmes to include emergency water,
sanitation and hygiene. Now we must focus on recovering from the
impact of the breakout to ensure the stability of our work – crucial to
prevent Ebola claiming more lives.
Oasis Spring/Summer 2015 15Get involved
1 Have a life-
changing cuppa
UK Coffee Week runs from 4-10 May
3 Keep an EyeOn
safe water
Buy an EyeOn baby monitor and
and supports our work in Ethiopia. D-Link will donate €1 to WaterAid to
www.ukcoffeeweek.com help us transform lives around the
world. To find out where you can buy
2
one, visit www.dlink.com
Spread the word about
ethical water
All profits from Belu Water are
given to WaterAid – almost £1m
to date! If you spot Belu in your
favourite restaurant or want to order
it next time you visit, just email
4
info@belu.org or comment on Belu
Water’s Facebook page. You could Give something
win £100 of Jamie’s Italian vouchers. up for Lent
Support our Jars of Change appeal and
transform lives with safe water.
Order your free resources at
www.wateraid.org/uk/lent
16 Oasis Spring/Summer 2015For more ideas about how you can help transform
lives, visit www.wateraid.org/uk/get-involved
7 Recycle your old mobile
It’s an easy way to support
WaterAid and protect the environment.
Arrange collection at:
www.fonebank.com/wateraid
8
ESP Photographic
Climb a UK peak
Take part in the WaterAid Mountain
Challenge in June and support our
work in Nepal.
5
www.wateraid.org/uk/wamc
Join our RideLondon team
This August, cycle 100 miles
on closed roads through London
and Surrey.
www.wateraid.org/uk/ridelondon
6 Pamper yourself this
Earth Month
In the lead up to Earth Month in April,
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Aveda stores and salons across the UK
will be raising money for clean water
projects. Head to your local Aveda to Take on 13.1 miles
get involved. Run the iconic Great North Run or the
www.aveda.co.uk/EarthMonth Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon
and #FinishThirst.
www.wateraid.org/running
Email events@wateraid.org
or call 020 7793 2232.
Oasis Spring/Summer 2015 17Your impact – To be a girl Last summer, supporters like you helped raise £2,116,182 for To be a girl, our most successful fundraising campaign to date. Every pound was matched by the UK Government, helping to transform the lives of over 250,000 girls with clean water and toilets. Thank you! Before Solo, 13, used to have to do this every day of her life: haul a jerrycan full of dirty water uphill to her village. 18 Oasis Spring/Summer 2015 WaterAid/Panos/Abbie Trayler-Smith
See some of the amazing ways you have changed lives in the last year:
www.wateraid.org/uk/topmoments
WaterAid/Ernest Randriarimalala
Solo helped her brother build new
latrines and shower blocks, while
the community and our partner built
a gravity flow water system.
Now
Solo and her
best friend Ze
have hope of a
brighter future,
thanks to the
work you made
possible. Solo
told us,
“Thank you
so much. The
water is so
clean and so
WaterAid/Ernest Randriarimalala
fresh and the
taste is so
different from
our old dirty
source.”
Oasis Spring/Summer 2015 19Celebrate your memories
with the
lasting gift of clean water
Charlie Bibby/FT
Give the gift of clean water by making
“Raising money for WaterAid in a donation in memory of a loved one.
my brother Ned’s memory has
www.wateraid.org/uk/inmemory
been a very positive thing.
He felt passionately that 020 7793 4594
everyone should have access
to safe drinking water. I know
that he would really approve.”
Kate How Registration numbers: England and Wales 288701, Scotland SC039479
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