Topic: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Maintaining facilities crucial for refugees facing closure of Dadaab refugee camp

On the island of Tanna, in Vanuatu, CARE has spoken with school girls about the challenges that keep them away from school. One reason may be a surprise: toilets!

Cleaning public toilets is not a pleasant task, regardless where you are. But for Janay Issack it is twice as hard. The 34-year-old mother of nine children takes care of school latrines for more than 2,100 pupils in one of the most challenging environments: in Dadaab, Kenya, the world’s largest refugee camp.

Why Toilets? Sanitation is important. Clean and safe toilets have a positive effect on all of us. Good sanitation prevents children from illnesses like diarrheal diseases, keeps girls in school and reduces health care costs. Meet Faith and her son to learn more.

A cotton flower is soft, fluffy and beautiful. But a 40 kilo bag of cotton is a 40 kilo bag - and Severine and Maina, two middle-aged women, have come a long way transporting their heavy load to the buyers' market here in Muape, northern Mozambique. They are tired but happy: It is payday, and selling 800 kilos of cotton each to the local cotton company means food, shelter and schooling for their families for the coming months.

Atália Massango knows what it means to be thirsty. The mother of four children lives in Mulepo, a small settlement in Inhambane province in southern Mozambique. Like many other mothers, she used to leave her home in the early morning on the hours-long journey to fetch water.

I’d like you to try something out for me. This morning when you wake up, you do not have access to a toilet. This might take some mental preparedness as we are so accustomed to always having access to a toilet. And, I'm not talking about remembering your rustic camping forays into the forest

Nepal’s Prime Minister, Dr. Baburam Bhattarai congratulated CARE Nepal’s Country Director at an event organized in the Prime Miniister’s home district of Gorkha

In the aftermath of the devastating January, 12, 2010 earthquake, CARE Haiti scaled up its activities in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH).