Autumn/Winter 2012 edition

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Autumn/Winter 2012
Your WaterAid magazine
Nepal update
Your support is already
changing lives
Water Works!
Your campaigning
took Washington DC
by storm
The Big Dig
Live from Malawi
– your money
changing lives
Welcome to Oasis
Dear WaterAid
supporter,
WaterAid/Abir Abdullah
This edition is all about making a difference.
Your campaigning this year did just that: the UK
Government promised to double the numbers of
people it will reach with safe water and sanitation!
And this summer communities in Malawi are
blogging – live – with photos and films to show how
your support is transforming their lives. See what’s
happening right now at thebigdig.org
Barbara Frost
Chief Executive
Edited by Tom Burgess
Designed by Progression (progressiondesign.co.uk)
WaterAid transforms lives by improving access to safe water,
hygiene and sanitation in the world’s poorest communities.
WaterAid
47-49 Durham Street
London, SE11 5JD
T: 020 7793 4594
Registered charity numbers 288701 (England and Wales)
and SC039479 (Scotland)
Cover image: The Statue of Liberty joins the cause! This picture was
created to grab attention online and in the media. Find out more on
page 4. (WaterAid/Cameron Davidson/Corbis)
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Oasis Autumn/Winter 2012
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WaterAid/Lotte Ljungberg
Mali unrest
F
Amadou Haidera, seven,
waits in line at the water
station during a water cut,
Bamako, Mali (March 2011)
ierce fighting and
political unrest
has displaced over
15,000 people in recent
months. Conditions in
makeshift camps are
likely to deteriorate
in the rainy season,
leading to an increase in
diarrhoeal diseases.
Where your
WaterAid has been
money goes
helping distribute
In every £1, we spend
safe water,
23p on fundraising and hygiene and
governance, and 77p on sanitation kits to
delivering services and those affected.
influencing decisionmakers.
WaterAid
Chelsea Flower Show
WaterAid’s garden
at the RHS Chelsea
Flower Show
R
ingo Starr officially
opened our garden at
this year’s RHS Chelsea
Flower Show. The garden was
sponsored by international
law firm Herbert Smith, and
went on to win the silver
award. Celebrities such as
Ricky Gervais and John Hurt
had a go on the handpump,
adding some stardust to
our simple technology!
Contents
4 Water Works
campaign success
8 The Big Dig
10 Special update: Nepal
12 HSBC Water Programme
14 Meet The Big Dig community from Malawi
16 Technology:
Borehole drilling rig
18 Get involved
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Campaigns
Water Works campaign:
What a result!
In April, we took our global Water Works campaign to
the Sanitation and Water for All High Level Meeting in
Washington DC. Our Chief Executive Barbara Frost reflects
on the extraordinary outcomes from the meeting.
people it reaches with safe water and
sanitation to 60 million by 2015.
The UK commitment is one part of
the huge global movement to invest
in water and sanitation for all. This
incredible result simply wouldn’t have
happened without your support. Turn
over to read more.
WaterAid/Dermot Tatlow/Panos Pictures
“
“I
am so excited by the commitments
made in Washington and the
determination of world leaders to
take action to end the water and
sanitation crisis. People really want
to create change and I am delighted
that the UK Government is leading the
way, pledging to double the number of
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← Meeting US Aid Administrator
Rav Shah (second left) with
my WaterAid colleagues.
We received support from
across the globe – including
the Statue of Liberty! →
The UK Government has pledged to double the number of people it
reaches with safe water and sanitation to 60 million by 2015.
Secretary of State for International
Development Andrew Mitchell
outlined the UK Government’s
commitment in a letter to MPs.
WaterAid/Cameron Davidson/Corbis
We intend to double the
commitment on water and
sanitation that we made last year.
Many of us have been contacted by our
constituents on this important issue
...over the lifetime of this
Parliament we will reach more
than 60 million people...
Your reaction
“A truly wonderful result and
let’s now hope for the action
as soon as possible. It’s time
we all realised that provision
of safe water and sanitation
is absolutely vital to lifting
people out of poverty.”
Gwen
Turn over to
read more →
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Campaigns
Water Works campaign:
Your support made
the difference
Your response to our call to action
in the last issue of Oasis was
incredible. Almost 10,000 of you
sent in postcards, each with your
own version of our very simple
← Handing over your
photos and messages to
Andrew Mitchell before
the meeting.
WaterAid/Dermot Tatlow/Panos Pictures
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message: Water Works. I know that
your actions – together with those from
supporters across the world – inspired
the Secretary of State and other key
decision-makers to commit to change.
Our next step is to ensure world leaders
keep to the promises made at the
meeting. There’s a long road ahead but,
by continuing to support our campaign
work, you can make sure that these
commitments turn into decisive action.
Let me say a huge thank you once again
from me and all the team.
Our Campaigns Team take
your messages to the
Department for International
Development. →
“
“T
hanks to the thousands of you
who contacted your MPs on
World Toilet Day in November,
Andrew Mitchell, the Secretary of State
for International Development, was
encouraged to attend the meeting in
Washington and make the UK’s pledge.
For an exclusive interview with Secretary of State Andrew Mitchell, and
videos and blogs from the meeting visit www.wateraid.org/waterworks
How you inspired world leaders:
Online
actions
Photo
messages
Postcard
messages
“It’s time for
our governments to
make taps and toilets an
urgent priority. They are
cheap, effective and
simple – and they save
innocent lives.”
Raymond
“You have the
power to transform
the lives of millions of
vulnerable people.
Please do so.”
Loraine
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WaterAid/Melissa
WaterAid/Tom VanLeon
Cakenberghe
The Big Dig Appeal
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Join us at thebigdig.org and see the work happening live.
Angharad McKenzie, from WaterAid’s fundraising
team, discusses the life-changing work you are making
possible in Malawi.
“O
n my first visit to Malawi in
understand the incredible difference
April this year, I asked Howard
your gifts make. If you’ve already visited
(pictured) what his ambitions
thebigdig.org I’m sure you’ll agree
for the future were. When I asked this
the transformation is just amazing.
question he looked puzzled and took
Now dotted across the villages are
some time to respond.
bright yellow ‘tippy-tap’ hand-washing
Thinking about your future in a place
facilities, racks to keep cooking utensils
like Bokola wasn’t something people
clean, and hygiene messages painted
really did. As in so many other poor
on walls.
communities across Malawi, life is
Today, every family has a latrine,
generally all about the here and now.
preventing waste from contaminating
I could see right away what an
water sources, and so helping to stop
incredible difference hygiene education, the spread of deadly diseases. There is
decent sanitation and safe water
privacy and dignity now, and because
would make to every individual in this
the toilets are composting latrines, they
community. So when WaterAid launched have free fertiliser too!
The Big Dig Appeal in June,
After a summer of hard work, The Big
aiming to reach 134,000
Dig is entering its final phase.
people across Malawi,
Very soon, water will come
we decided to follow
gushing from the ground in
See how we dig
the story of Howard’s
boreholes on page 16 Bokola and Kaniche and
village, Bokola, and
I hope you will join us at
and
meet
more
people
neighbouring Kaniche
thebigdig.org as we
from Bokola and
on thebigdig.org
bring these communities
Kaniche on page 14
It’s so important that
safe, clean water for the
you, our supporters,
first time.
“
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Special update: Nepal
Change gains
a foothold
Following our report in the last edition of Oasis, life
for families is suddenly beginning to change in the
mountainous district of Sindhuli, Nepal, thanks to your
support. Meriel Armson, our Special Projects Manager,
shares some of the incredible progress being made.
“J
it Bahadur Shrestha is a father
of five. It was clear that life was
incredibly tough for his family,
and their water source was the worst
we saw earlier this year. Personally I
found Jit’s story heartbreaking – here
was a desperately poor man who was
facing a horrendous daily struggle to
care for his family.
The wonderful news is that gravity
flow systems have been constructed
in Jit’s village, piping safe, clean water
straight from its source to a series
of tapstands. Dangerous journeys to
collect dirty water from the nearest
stream are now a thing of the past.
Jit told our team: “Now we have
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access to clean drinking water and
have learned to live a healthy life. The
improved situation has enhanced our
confidence and now we are sure not
to lose our children as we had lost our
parents. Now my children shall never
fall sick due to waterborne diseases.”
In fact, every single person in Jit’s
region now has clean water and a
proper toilet – that’s 3,185 people
who can now embrace the future with
new hope. This is only the second
region in the whole of Nepal to
achieve 100% water and sanitation
coverage – an achievement our team
in Nepal are very proud of, and one
which simply wouldn’t have been
possible without your support.
“Every single person in Jit’s region now has clean water and a
proper toilet – that’s 3,185 people who can now embrace the
future with new hope.”
And once the rainy season is over in
October, construction will start on
gravity flow systems, bringing villagers
clean, safe water for the first time in
their lives.
“
All funds raised
from the recent
WaterAid200
Mountain Challenge
will support projects
in Nepal.
WaterAid/Tom Van Cakenberghe
I’m also delighted to report that
thanks to your kindness, project work
is now well underway in neighbouring
Tosramkhola. Huge steps have already
been made to improve sanitation, with
every household building a latrine.
Jit’s oldest daughter Sarita (pictured) describes the
impact the project has had on their lives:
“Before, we used to be absent for several
days in school due to sickness. But now
we are regular in school and able to read
properly, thus improving our education.”
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HSBC Water Programme
Investing in lives
and livelihoods
With HSBC’s
support, WaterAid will
reach 1.1 million
people with safe water
and 1.9 million people
with sanitation and
hygiene.
“Speaking to the community they aren’t feeling a shortage
anymore,” says Naina Lal Kidwai, Country Head of HSBC in
India, as she visits a WaterAid project in Dalit Eka in central
Delhi. “They’re careful with the water. A family might need
five, six buckets at a minimum, and they’re getting that.”
T
he transformation of the
neighbourhood is remarkable.
Before, the 3,600 residents
had to fight over the one tanker
of water that arrived each day.
Now, after working closely with the
community and Delhi’s water board,
our local partner has rehabilitated
the community borehole well, built
an overhead storage tank and piped
water system, with taps every 50
metres throughout the settlement.
Sewer lines, drains and household
toilets have also been constructed.
Inspired by the transformation in
poor communities like Dalit Eka, HSBC
launched a new Water Programme in
June this year, investing $25 million
in WaterAid over the next five years to
support our vital safe water, sanitation
and hygiene projects.
The programme will fund our work
across South Asia in Bangladesh,
India, Pakistan and Nepal, and in West
Africa in Ghana and Nigeria. With
HSBC’s support, WaterAid will reach
an amazing 1.1 million people with
safe water and 1.9 million people
with sanitation and hygiene.
HSBC is also supporting the work of
WWF and Earthwatch to ensure that key
river basins are managed properly and
vital ecosystems are protected. We are
WaterAid/GMB Akash/Panos Pictures
To find out more about the HSBC Water Programme, and
watch the film of Naina Lal Kidwai’s visit to Dalit Eka with
WaterAid, go to www.thewaterhub.org/wateraid
With HSBC’s support,
WaterAid will work in
six tea garden areas in
Sylhet, Bangladesh.
Monica Nayak (centre), a
tea picker in Burjan Tea
Garden, now has access to
safe water and promotes
hygiene education in her
community. She says:
“Clean water means life
will be happier for our child
and for me and for our
community. I see my child
is much happier and I hope
this will grow day by day.
Water is our life; it is very,
very important for us.”
“HSBC’s support to WaterAid is going
to be vital to ensuring that the good
work that WaterAid does continues,”
Naina adds. “It is the only way that
poor people can come out of poverty;
without water they can’t even begin to
think about the other aspects of life:
about employment, about sending
their children to school, about hygiene
and health. All of that becomes
important as they look to advance and
build their way out of poverty.”
Naina in Dalit Eka making
a film of her experiences –
available at the link above.
WaterAid/GMB Akash/Panos Pictures
working together because we
know that water is vital to building
healthy communities and developing
national economies.
The Big Dig Appeal: Meet the people
1
Let us introduce
you to some of the
134,000 people
across Malawi
whose lives you’re
helping to change
forever through
The Big Dig.
1 Grace Rabson is 62. Dysentery has
made her very frail. She makes the
hazardous journey to the scoop hole on
her own every single day. “I know this
water is not safe, but we have
no option.”
2 Mr Khombe was the first to build a
new latrine using the method shown to
him by WaterAid. “I am a proud member
of Kaniche village. I will do what I can to
ensure this village is safe from disease.”
See how Grace, Mr Khombe and Janet’s lives
are changing every day – go to thebigdig.org
Photos: WaterAid/Kate Holt
2
3
3 Janet’s four year old son died last
year of cholera. “If we had clean water
that would change the lives of my
children. There would be no more
dying of these diseases.”
Technology
Borehole drilling rig
I
n 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.
WaterAid/Layton Thompson
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.
“We used to draw water from the Mdwere
River. When we drank the water we had
stomach problems like diarrhoea, especially
during the rainy season. When the clean
water was switched on we were very happy
and amazed that our problems were solved!
Everyone in the village uses the borehole and
water is available throughout the year.”
Rose Mwale carries water from a handpump fitted to a
borehole well, Salima District, Malawi.
To download free posters of the technologies we use,
go to www.wateraid.org/technology
£88
could pay to dig and
lay a kilometre of pipes.
Go to
www.wateraid.org/
donate
Illustration by peter-mac.com
Get involved
Choose Belu water Speak out!
Next time you are buying bottled water choose Belu
and transform lives – the UK’s most ethical water
brand is giving every penny of its profits to WaterAid!
An environmentally friendly choice,
Belu is the UK’s first carbon neutral
bottled water brand, refusing to
import materials or export
its bottles.
Belu water is available in a recycled
glass bottle in restaurants and cafés
including Zizzi, Café Rouge, Strada,
Las Iguanas, Hard Rock Café and
Leon, and can also be bought
in Sainsbury’s in an innovative
recycled plastic bottle.
Belu has already raised
almost £200,000 for
WaterAid through sales of
its water, which will help us
reach around 13,000 people
with safe water, improved
hygiene and sanitation!
So, if you’re buying bottled
water, choose Belu. And
remember, 100% of the
profits go to WaterAid!
www.belu.org
Join our network of
inspiring volunteer
speakers and help change
minds and transform lives!
Email: speakers@
wateraid.org
Call: 020 7793 4988
Christmas
cards
Support WaterAid this
Christmas with our range
of cards available at
Waterstones, Paperchase,
selected branches of
Waitrose, John Lewis,
Cards Galore and
WHSmith, or at
www.amazon.co.uk
Samantha Cook
We need you! Come along and help at WaterAid events! We are
always looking for volunteers to cheer on and support our teams.
Call 020 7793 2232 or email events@wateraid.org for information.
15 September
Coast Along for WaterAid
Get your school or
youth group involved in
WaterAid’s Big Collection
and learn about children
in Rwanda –
see enclosed leaflet.
Call: 020 7793 2232
Email: bigcollection@
wateraid.org
Visit: www.wateraid.
org/thebigcollection
Join one of our coastal path
group walks and raise vital
funds for Malawi.
Email: coastalong@wateraid.org
17 February/14 April
Brighton Half Marathon/Marathon
Get some sea air and blow away the post-Christmas
blues with the Brighton Half Marathon. Or for a more
challenging run take on the full 26
Thank you
miles and 385 yards in April.
Whitbread!
Email: events@wateraid.org
Since June 2009
Call: 020 7793 2232
Whitbread employees
have raised £1.35 million
for our work in India.
27 May
21 April
Thank you so much for
your amazing
support!
Join us for a running tour
of London that takes in
Westminster Abbey, the
Join our team for the
Houses of Parliament, Big
greatest marathon in the
Ben and the London Eye.
world and we’ll support you
every step of the way.
Email: events@
wateraid.org
Email: events@wateraid.org
Call: 020 7793 2232
Call: 020 7793 2232
Virgin London
Marathon
Toby Roberts
BUPA 10,000
Grace
Mary
Awena
Meet the community
Here are a few of the people
in rural Malawi whose lives
you can change by joining
The Big Dig.
Howard
Janet
Watch amazing things
happen at thebigdig.org
Dave
Rolena
Lameke
All images WaterAid/Kate Holt

Autumn/Winter 2012 edition

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