Spring/Summer 2012/13 issue

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Spring/Summer 2012
Your WaterAid magazine
Clean Delhi,
Healthy Delhi
Bringing toilets and a
livelihood to some of
India’s poorest
Borehole drilling rigs
We’ve completed our first drilling
in Timor-Leste. Learn more about
borehole technology inside
Thank you! In June we told you
about life without clean water for
Jhalak Maya Damai and her family
in Tosramkhola, Nepal. Here, she
gives us an update on how your
support has made a difference to
her and her family.
Welcome
Here we are at the end of another year and
I continue to be moved by the experiences
my role at WaterAid presents.
In July I enjoyed visiting WaterAid’s newly
established office in Pretoria, South Africa.
This represents a wonderful opportunity for
us to expand our work in the African region,
bringing water and sanitation to some of
the world’s most vulnerable people.
Jhalak Maya Damai
with her 5 year
old daughter, in
Tosramkhola, Nepal
‘My children used to get sick very often, now diarrhoea is
rarely seen. I save 200–400 rupees ($AU3.50–$AU7) per
month now that I don’t have to spend so much money on
medicines for my children; and the best part is they can
attend school regularly.’
Jhalak Maya Damai WaterAid/Tom Van Cakenberghe
It is trips like these that remind me of
the joys, but also the challenges of our
work. I also visited Mozambique’s Maputo
province, where I was shocked and
humbled when I saw the only sanitation
option for a family living in a shanty town
was a dilapidated outdoor toilet; dirty
and smelly. I am truly grateful to you,
our supporters, for enabling us to begin
working in this village in the coming year.
Closer to home, we recently completed
our first borehole drilling in Timor-Leste’s
Manufahi district. You can learn more
about why we use boreholes instead of
other technologies in some regions on
page 6 and 7.
If, like me, you still have some gifts to
purchase before the holiday season, why
not have a look at our Shop2Life:
https://shop.wateraidaustralia.org.
Have a safe and wonderful holiday season
and thank you for making a difference to
some of the world’s poorest people.
Chief Executive
WaterAid Australia
WaterAid transforms lives by improving access
to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the
world’s poorest communities.
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Where we work
Bangladesh
Poppy is 25 and uses a wheelchair.
She lives in one of Dhaka’s many slums
where she used to suffer indignity every
day because she could not access the
squat toilets. Supported by WaterAid,
her participation on the slum’s disability
advisory group ensured that new facilities
built for residents were accessible
for everyone. ‘Since being part of this
community I can talk to anyone, I have
a raised voice. Before I couldn’t raise my
voice, but now I can.’ To learn more about
WaterAid’s work on equity and inclusion
visit www.inclusivewash.org.au
WaterAid/Christina Chacha
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A lack of clean water at this school
in Tanzania’s Bahi district presents
challenges for students who must collect
water on their way to school each day.
However, thanks to your support, a new
toilet block has brought dignity to the
many teenage girls and female teachers.
They now have facilities available to
manage their menstrual hygiene needs
enabling them to stay in school every
day of the month.
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2 Timor-Leste
Tap stands provide a wonderful source
of clean water close to home, but the
ensuing waste-water can create a health
hazard when pools of water attract
mosquitoes. Women in Timor’s Liquica
district have created kitchen gardens
using the waste-water from their new
tap stands. With the extra time gained by
water being closer to home, they are now
able to generate an income selling excess
produce at local markets.
WaterAid
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WaterAid/GMB Akah / Panos
WaterAid/Matthew Abbott
Every day your support makes a difference to someone’s
life. Here are just a few water and sanitation stories that
you have helped to make happen.
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Papua New Guinea
In June our Head of International
Programs, Rosie Wheen, hiked for two
days to visit one of the newest regions
we’re working in; Lumi, in Papua New
Guinea’s West Sepik province. The
closest road to Lumi, where Rosie setoff from, is the final destination for
any delivery trucks bringing Lumi and
surrounding villages much needed
supplies. With your support Lumi is one of
50 PNG villages that will have rainwater
tanks installed to ensure sufficient clean
water for all villagers by 2015.
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Special report: Delhi
Clean Delhi,
healthy Delhi
Arjun is one of these people. Living
in a community that has no sewage
system and limited water supplies,
Arjun has found regular work and a
consistent income collecting solid
waste from slum homes. This prevents
water contamination. It may not sound
glamorous, but for Arjun it is a good life.
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Arjun now has a regular income collecting
solid waste around slums in Delhi
Thanks to your support, we have been
working in Harijan Basti since May this
year. Prior to this, there were no toilets
at all. It is thanks to people like you that
Arjun has the opportunity to work and to
ensure his community is a cleaner and
healthier one.
WaterAid/Zute Lightfoot
Like most urban slums, Harijan Basti’s
community members are largely from one
of India’s lowest and most marginalised
castes, the Dalit and don’t have any land
rights. While an estimated three million
people live in slums across Delhi, many of
them are living on government land and
could be forced to move at any time.
Angelique goes to a school with around
900 other children in Juru district,
Rwanda. In a country where 40% of the
population are aged 15 or under the
Juru region was hugely affected by the
Rwandan genocide in 1994. Community
access to clean water and sanitation
services is extremely low. Angelique’s
school had intermittent access to water
from the district piping system, but when
the system broke down she and other
students would walk about an hour
downhill to collect water from the Akagera
River. Dirty, and inhabited by both hippos
and crocodiles, it was a dangerous journey
for children, and a difficult walk back up
the hill with heavy buckets of water.
“I am very happy. I have a job and am
paid each month. I bring my children with
me and we work together. This means I
can babysit while I work.”
WaterAid/Elly Barrett
In Harijan Basti, a slum on the fringes
of Delhi, India, it is common for a family
home to be just one room. Up to six
people live in this space. The ceiling is
low, the walls made up of a mixture of
brick and scrap material. Large, heavy
branches or bricks are placed on top
of the house to weigh the roof down.
Although there may be communal toilets
they are often not conveniently located;
and even then one toilet is often shared
with up to 100 people.
School hygiene
club in Rwanda
As well as building rainwater tanks at the
school, your support has helped us to
provide hygiene education for students
like Angelique.
Angelique has joined a group of students
who have set-up a hygiene club. With
the help of one teacher they remind their
peers through games, murals and class
activities, to wash their hands after going
to the toilet and before eating. Thanks
to you more students are learning that
the simple act of washing hands with
soap and water can reduce diarrhoeal
diseases by 47%.
“When I started being in the
hygiene club I didn’t know
a lot but now I am treasurer
of the club. We teach people
at home, especially as they
don’t have clean water, to
purify the water and boil it
before drinking it.”
Angelique, Juru district, Rwanda
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Technology
Borehole drilling rig
In areas where there is very hard rock or water needs
to be collected from a greater depth, our partners use
technologies such as boreholes. Hydraulic pumps and
rock drills are used to cut through the earth to depths of
100m or more.
Water is pumped to the surface either by hand
or, where there is a high demand, using diesel
or electric engines. The water is usually stored in
large tanks before being piped to tapstands in
surrounding villages.
A hydraulic pump
powers the drill’s rotary
mechanism.
Compressed air drives the
‘down-the-hole-hammer’ to
pulverise the rock.
Dust and cuttings are
flushed out of the borehole
by compressed air.
The drill rotates at 1030rpm to ensure that the
borehole is straight.
“Before we got water from the hand pump,
I showered with dirty water at the river and
many times my skin got itches. But I had no
choice. Now with clean water just close to my
house, I can take a shower twice a day before
school and in the evening. And I get no skin
itches anymore!”
WaterAid/Edmund Weking
$200
could pay to dig a
well in Timor-Leste. Visit
www.wateraid.org.
au/donate
today
Illustration by peter-mac.com
Trezinha, 9 years old, Manufahi District Timor-Leste
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Toilet Tour
Get Involved
What you achieved
on the Toilet Tour
Walk 4 Water Who Gives
18-22 March 2013
a Crap
10,000 steps a day is the average distance
a person in the developing world walks
every day to take care of their most basic
water needs. On World Water Day, why not
join thousands of others across Australia
by committing to walk the same distance
for five days. When you commit to Walk 4
Water you will help to create a world where
everyone has access to safe water.
Between May and December 2012,
you have helped support our Giant
Toilet travel across Australia, from
Tamworth to Devonport, Adelaide to
Fremantle and everywhere in between.
Together we have let thousands of
Australians know that 2.5 billion
people shouldn’t be living without a
toilet. Here is what you’ve achieved:
Who Gives a Crap is a new brand of
toilet paper that will donate 50%
of its profits to WaterAid to help us
build toilets and improve sanitation
in the developing world.
Commit to walk 10,000 steps a
day for five days in March 2013
40 events held across
Australia (so far)
Challenge your friends and
family to sponsor you
More than 15,000 people
attended an event
Connect to people living
without clean water
Hundreds of signatures
asking Foreign Minister
Bob Carr to do more to
end the sanitation crisis
Purchase your feel
good toilet paper at
www.whogivesacrap.org
WaterAid/Marco Betti
Create a world where everyone
has access to safe water
Visit www.walk4water.com.au to learn more.
Give the gift of water this Christmas!
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WaterAid/John Deer
Thank
You!
The gift of water transforms lives. Why not
buy your loved ones a tap for a village or a
soap-making business for a couple? Give
a gift that gives twice this Christmas.
Visit http://shop.wateraidaustralia.org
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