In the biggest corporate social responsibility (CSR) project that Tanga Cement Company Limited (TCCL) has undertaken to date, the company recently handed over a multi-purpose hall to the Saunyi village school situated in Kilindi district, within...
This short film highlights the Water, Hygiene, and Sanitation needs of rural areas, specifically looking at Women and Water issues.
Ghana, according to the World Bank, spends GH₵ 290 million or its equivalent of 1.6% of GDP or $12.2 per capita on poor hygiene and sanitation annually. Sherry Ayittey, Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, said the estimate given by the...
Toilets that use microwave energy to transform human waste into electricity. Another captures urine and uses it for flushing. And still another turns excrement into charcoal. These aren’t your typical loos – they are part of a Bill & Melinda...
More than a million children die from diarrhoea-related illnesses in Africa every year and it’s public health issues like this that will be exercising the minds of delegates at a conference on sanitation to be held in Durban in December. The 12th...
A new set of guidelines for sanitation and hygiene in schools aimed at significantly reducing water-related diseases among students was launched at the Education Ministry in Beirut last Thursday. The guide, Water Sanitation and Hygiene in Schools:...
A lot has been said over the years regarding the health and hygiene in hospitals, but one thing that is over looked time and again is hospital-acquired infections. As such, one of the most important tools in hospital hygiene is hospital bins....
After using the ‘bush system’ as a toilet for 50 years, headman Phillip Mpala of Tsholotsho is now hopeful that he and hundreds of his subjects will soon, for the first time, have proper sanitary facilities courtesy of a recently...
Thirty two years after obtaining independence from Britain, Zimbabwe’s Local government Minister Ignatius Chombo, here has accused the former colonial masters of relegating rural communities during the pre-Independence (1980) era. Chombo on the...
