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Women, Water, and the Quest for Hope
This is a guest post by Barbara Goldberg, Founder and President of Wells Bring Hope, an organisation working to deliver safe drinking water in West Africa. Listen to our interview with Barbara from 2012 and learn more about her and the organisation. … Continue reading
Empowering Girls Influences Health and Education Programming in Ghana
Guest post by Amy Henderson Riley, Summer 2013 Girls Empowerment Volunteer Coordinator, from www.GHEI.org. Amy will be beginning her Doctor of Public Health work in Community Health and Prevention at the Drexel School of Public Health in the fall of … Continue reading
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Tagged empowerment, Ghana, girls, health, human rights, sanitation, water
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Women, water and what it means to ‘have it all’
Guest post from Marla Smith-Nilson, founder and Executive Director of Water1st International, a Seattle-based non-profit devoted to helping the world’s poor meet their needs for safe water. Marla has overseen the implementation of over 600 community water projects in Latin … Continue reading
Reflections on World Water Day: No women, No water, empowering women to manage water
Guest post by Julia Collins. This blog is cross-posted on Global.Gender.Current. Accessing and managing one of the most basic, and yet most crucial, life-sustaining resources is a big deal. On World Water Day, we take a moment to consider what … Continue reading
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Tagged gender, health, hydiene, policy, poverty, sanitation, security, water, water management, women, world water day
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Celebrate Solutions:Safe Water and Toilets:The Foundation for Empowering Women
Guest post by Nicole Wichenhauser from Water.org. This blog is cross-posted on WomenDeliver. What would your life be like if you had to walk 3.7 miles each day for water and wait for the cover of darkness to relieve yourself? It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged sanitation, solutions, water, watercredit, women, womendeliver
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Community-based technology benefits women
Henrietta Miers is a senior associate of WISE Development, a consulting company focused on boosting economic opportunities for poor women. Her article, “Focus on Gender: Small-scale tech can transform women’s lives” explains the important role of technology in the lives of … Continue reading
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What access to clean water means for women and girls in Bogu, Ghana
Guest post by Jordan Teague, Research Assistant at WASH Advocates. This blog is cross-posted on WASH Advocates and Maternal Health Task Force. When I arrived in the village of Bogu in the Northern Region of Ghana, the first thing I saw was … Continue reading
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Tagged adolescent girls, education, Ghana, maternal health, newborn health, reproductive health, sanitation, wash, WASH Advocates, WASH and women's health, water
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Water is Life: Women and Water in the Kibera Slum
The Pulitzer Center’s WATER IS LIFE illustrates the importance of this precious resource for women in Kibera. Explaining that “the burden of responsibility for water falls disproportionately on young women and girls,” the video details the effects of water scarcity on domestic activities, … Continue reading
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Tagged Kibera, Pulitzer Center, safety, sanitation, water, water scarcity, women and water
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Getting Water to Women: AMREF’s Mkuranga District WASH Project, Tanzania
Guest post by Koronel Mashalla Kema, Programme Manager and Technical WASH leader with AMREF Tanzania. Based in Dar es Salaam, he is also a Paul Harris Fellow with Rotary International. This blog is cross-posted on Maternal Health Task Force and WASH Advocates. As … Continue reading
Introducing WASH and Women’s Health: a blog series coordinated by WASH Advocates
This guest post by Rebecca Fishman, Director of Operations and Special Projects at WASH Advocates, is the first in the series WASH & Women’s Health, which WASH Advocates is coordinating for the MHTF blog. This blog is cross-posted on the Maternal Health Task Force and WASH … Continue reading
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Tagged children, maternal health, sanitation, wash, WASH Advocates, water, women
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