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WorldISSUE 65 WINTER 2017

Clean hands save lives A pull out feature on our Safe Pair of Hands campaign: Working with communities in Kisumu to reduce the spread of deadly diseases

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Small World 1 Dear Supporter, Join the In this issue conversation Happy New Year! Welcome to the winter issue of Small World. Share your thoughts and views with us online: As my first year at Practical Action facebook.com/practicalaction came to a close, I was already feeling a sense of pride by the work that your kind donations have helped twitter.com/practicalaction to achieve. Add to that our Safe Pair of Hands work in 4 8 Kisumu, Kenya was successfully selected for the Department instagram.com/practical_action for International Development (DFID) Aid Match scheme; I finished 2017 feeling inspired that we will be able to do so flickr.com/photos/practicalaction much more.

The UK Aid Match scheme means the UK public has a say in how the aid budget is spent, helping the lives of some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. For every pound you donate to our campaign, the UK Government will match your donation; helping our much needed project go even further in changing and saving lives. 9 11

With your support, this is an ideal opportunity for Practical Action to extend our impact, and look at how water supply, sanitation and hygiene provisions improve the lives of people living in poverty. As you will read in this issue, we are partnering with local communities to target children under-five and their caregivers living in the slums of Kisumu. Contact us

Continuing the theme of providing safe water and sanitation Practical Action facilities, this edition also features stories showing how your The Schumacher Centre ongoing support has helped bring a positive change in other Bourton on Dunsmore, Rugby 13 15 16 countries we work in: schools in remote parts of Peru now Warwickshire CV23 9QZ have adequate sanitation and water-points and toilets are T: 01926 634 400 being constructed in the slums of Choudwar, India. W: practicalaction.org E: [email protected] Contents

I hope you will feel proud as you read how, thanks to Small World 65 Healthy schools 4 supporters like you, Practical Action is working with poor Fashion blogger sees life without sanitation 5 communities around the world to help them meet their basic Practical Action Patron: HRH The Prince of Wales KG, KT, GCB An interview with Farida Bascha, East Africa Director 6 and important needs! Reg Charity No. 247257 Safe Pair of Hands 7

With very best wishes, Front cover: Woman washing her hands in Kisumu, Meet Makena, a local health champion 9 Kenya. Front cover photo by Patrick Meinhardt Absolute Support - our media partner 9 © Copyright Practical Action Community-led solutions - triggering the demand for change 10 Where there’s muck, there’s brass 11 Our impact in numbers 12 Our Supporter Promise 12 Farida Bascha Simon Reeve presents Radio 4 charity appeal 14 East Africa Director New Year fundraising ideas 14 Remembering Simon Speirs 15 P.S Our supporters are at the heart of everything we do - do go to page 12 to read our Supporter Promise, which Spoonfest – a novel way of supporting Practical Action 15 tells you about our commitment to you. With love, always 16

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Fryda Caytuero Valenzuela and Healthy schools her students Fashion blogger “Please, may I go to the toilet?” sees realities of life without adequate sanitation must be of the most common questions asked in primary school In Choudwar, a city of 51,000 in Odisha state, India, diarrhoeal disease classrooms! Photo: Frank Medina is rife because of poor sanitation.

But for the 46 children who attend Tupac Amaru Photo: Zoë De Pass The project is also installing rainwater harvesting Primary School in Apurímac, Peru, access to a toilet technology in schools, hospitals and other local services wasn’t an option. to collect water for hand-washing. We are working with the authorities to implement a City Sanitation Plan. Headteacher Fryda Caytuero Valenzuela explained how through access to energy services, safe water, sanitation The plan will ensure any future government investment important it is to teach good hygiene habits in primary and information technology. Greater opportunity to reaches those who need it most, benefiting around school and the difficulties of doing this without offering access technology will improve educational prospects, 45,000 people in Choudwar alone. basic facilities. Both children and teachers in her school leading to a brighter future for these communities. used to miss lessons because of sickness caused by We are always looking for new ways to get people contaminated water. To add to the problem of lack of involved in our work and through our partnership with sanitation, where taps existed, they often froze in winter, “The introduction of information the H&M Foundation, we tapped into the fashion world, making hand-washing impossible. inviting social media blogger @dresslikeamum (real technology makes me very excited, name Zoë de Pass) to join a trip to Chowdwar and share because we are quite behind in the area” her experience with her 88,000 Instagram followers. “How do you expect children to

learn maths or history without Working with teachers like Fryda is key to the project’s Zoë with children in the slums of Choudwar minimum standards of water, success and she is keen to collaborate in all aspects. “It was such a privilege to be able to see first-hand the fantastic work sanitation and hygiene?” Water facilities and toilets that are being installed have Like most of the towns in Odisha, there is no sewerage been specifically designed for remote areas like this system in Choudwar. Many households discharge their that Practical Action is doing with the in the High Andes. These are easy to maintain so that Poor educational achievement is a key factor limiting waste directly into natural drains and waterways. Some H&M Foundation in India. I found it so the community will be able to manage the facilities development in rural Andean communities. Many areas use septic tanks, but these often leak out into the themselves. interesting to learn about the challenges lack basic services and have high rates of teacher and environment and any faecal sludge that is collected is disposed of indiscriminately. Those living in slums have and obstacles the Practical Action student absenteeism, resulting in students with low A school without clean water or sanitation is now just no option but to defecate in public spaces. learning outcomes. Communities remain isolated from a distant memory for Fryda. Children at Tupac Amaru team have to overcome in order to

many of the advances in modern education leaving School finally have the facilities they need and Fryda is Practical Action, with the generous support of the make projects like this happen. I now students at a disadvantage in continuing their secondary looking forward to seeing their educational achievement H&M Foundation, has been working with communities and higher education. improve - thanks to our supporters! have even more respect for them and on the Swachh Samudai (Healthy Communities) their dedication and commitment.” Now, along with seven other schools in the region, Tupac project. A key part of the project is the construction of Amaru pupils are part of a project to improve learning To find out more about this project visit water points and community toilets. It also works with practicalaction.org/healthy-schools government and local partners to develop a sustainable During the visit Zoë was really waste management system that takes faecal waste moved when she met Sunita from communities to a treatment plant. There are Photo: Ananta Prasad who, like her, is a mother of School children brushing plans to sell the biogas as a sustainable and affordable their teeth at Tupac Amaru young children. Sunita is in clean fuel. her late thirties and works as a home help. In her village, the The H&M Foundation is a non-profit global foundation, community has to go to the Sunita privately funded by the Stefan Persson family, founders toilet outside. For women, this and main owners of H&M. Its mission is to drive long- Photo: Frank Medina lack of privacy puts them at risk of sexual assault. lasting positive change and improve living conditions by She told us that having proper, safe toilets would make investing in people, communities and innovative ideas. life much easier and safer. The Foundation was already aware of Practical Action’s previous work and identified the Swachh Samudai Read more about this project at project as a further opportunity to extend its support for practicalaction.org/choudwar India’s water and sanitation sector.

Small World 5 FEATURE SAFE PAIR OF HANDS

An interview with On 8 November, the Safe Pair of Hands campaign The campaign, spanning three months, includes, press, launched with support from the UK Government. Every community promotion and a partnership with Europe’s pound donated by 8 February 2018, up to a total value largest, privately owned media group, Bauer Media. These Farida Bascha of £5 million, will be matched by the Department for are exciting times, as Practical Action’s work is promoted International Development. It’s the ideal way for you to to hundreds of thousands of people across the country, have a say in how the UK’s international aid is spent and, many of whom will be hearing about it for the first time. who introduces our Safe Pair of Hands of course, it presents an incredible opportunity to extend So please, if you have supported our campaign, share campaign and tells us what inspires her. the reach of Practical Action’s work in Kisumu. with your friends and family and help us reach more!

The last 12 months has been an exceptional time for me at Practical Action. When I started as Regional Director in December 2016, we began putting together our new strategic plan; looking at where the Safe Pair of Hands need is geographically and where to carve out our niche to achieve our goals. It’s a very exciting time for Access to clean, safe water and sanitation does not automatically Practical Action, East Africa. lead to improved health. But combined with promoting good hand- I was born in Kenya but have also lived in Europe and washing practices within local communities, Practical Action aims North America. I had a typical childhood but when I was a teenager – about 14 or 15 – I had an amazing to significantly reduce life-long malnutrition amongst children opportunity to attend a United Nations Global General under-five in the slums of Kisumu, Kenya. Assembly on violence against children. This was a subject that soon became very dear to me. It became As Kenya’s third largest city, Kisumu is growing at a rate clear that some children weren’t able to enjoy benefits of 12,000 people a year. Over 60% of the residents are I took for granted, such as going to school or enjoying Photo: Farida Bascha low-income tenants living in slums such as Nyalenda time with friends. It opened my eyes to the world and and Obunga, which are home to 85,000 people. Only this experience led me to what I’m doing . It half have access to a toilet. Each toilet is shared by up ignited a drive that has lived in me for more than 15 to seven families and the nearest water points are 500 years now. Farida with community members in Turkana metres or more away. This is compounded by Kisumu’s I am inspired whenever I go out to the field and spend location next to Lake Victoria. Frequent flooding causes time with the people we are working with. Everyone is be integrated into the delivery of our work; human waste to flow through the slums, leading to so connected to our work. the immediate response to sanitation and hygiene contamination of the water supply via burst pipes. An increased risk of diarrhoeal disease is inevitable, and it’s

issues is critical, but changing the approach Photo: Patrick Meinhardt so it works in the long term for communities is young children who suffer the most. “Our vision of who we are comes out transformative. Ongoing diarrhoea is one of the leading causes of child in these communities, which has been mortality in Kenya, and one in four children who survive both humbling and fulfilling for me.” has to live with the after-effects; a reduction in the “For me the stars of this project are body’s ability to absorb nutrients, leading to long-term the children. Hand-washing is critical malnutrition and stunted growth. And of course, this I am passionate about the Safe Pair of Hands work to stopping the spread of disease. We also affects their physical and cognitive development*. in Kisumu, Kenya. Kisumu is the third largest city in Faced with challenges like this, climbing out of poverty Through a network of volunteer health workers, we will be Kenya and growing fast. A key part of our work has need to encourage behaviour change is almost impossible. working alongside carers, expectant and new mothers, been working to increase the number of latrines and and older siblings to increase awareness of how diarrhoea in schools, so the children themselves The Safe Pair of Hands campaign will enable simple water points so that people have access to clean is spread. Effective hand-washing will be promoted in go and work with other children, solutions to be put in place: building 2,500 new water water and sanitation and we are now looking at other schools, nurseries and health clinics. Street theatre, points and rehabilitating three kilometres of water pipe, aspects of hygiene. demonstrating how to wash their hands music workshops and local radio shows will also be used along with training operators to maintain and manage the to share these important messages. Some very important questions emerged from our properly. We are giving children the water points so that water remains available, clean and existing work in this area. The first is the link between power to make change for themselves.” safe in the future. *World Health Organisation Global Nutrition Targets 2015 malnutrition in children under five and contaminated water. This led us to focus on improving access to AIR OF H AIR OF H P A P A E N E N clean water. We are working closely with the local F D F D Visit practicalaction.org/sw65 to make a A S A S public health departments to help review and draft S S donation to the Safe Pair of Hands campaign Every £ you give until 8 February will be doubled by the UK Government public health policy in Kisumu, so that it can APPEAL APPEAL

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Lucy Atieno is a widow caring for her grandchildren Meet Makena - - including two year old twins. As babies, they were often sick. After receiving advice and support from Health Champion the clinic, she now understands the importance of hygiene to stop the outbreak and spread of disease. Twelve-year-old Makena lives in Obunga with her family. She has attended Pandpieri School for eight years. Makena was very concerned about how often “We have two water sources, from the her friends missed school through illness. tap and from the lake. The water is not clean and if you boil it, you must leave “I can see every day that people are Absolute Support it to settle. There was a time the water off school because they are sick. It’s from the tap was brown, we could only We’re delighted that Bauer Media, Europe’s largest usually stomach problems. I too have use it for laundry and cleaning the floor.” privately owned media group, are partnering with us been off school for stomach problems.” on this campaign. Presenter of Absolute Radio’s late evening show, Pete Donaldson visited Kisumu to find Photo: Patrick Meinhardt out about the issues faced by communities living in the She decided to do something positive and joined slums. He recorded his show there which was broadcast the school health club. These clubs teach children on 18 December. He spoke to a wide range To donate, go to practicalaction.org/sw65 good hygiene habits using song and dance, as well as of people involved in the project, including - every pound donated will be matched by Lucy with one of conventional lessons. mothers, children, community volunteers the UK Government, doubling the value and her twin grandsons and medical staff. impact of your generosity. Makena is now a health champion. Children love to copy their friends, so this is a great way to share hand-

Photo: Patrick Meinhardt washing messages at school. Makena is equally keen to communicate what she has learned at home to her “This broadcast broke new ground for family, friends and neighbours. Absolute Radio. It was the first time “I have told my mother about the station has broadcast from an everything I learned in health environment like the slums in Kisumu club and now, every morning, she makes sure that she boils and the first time we have spoken to our water before drinking. She our listeners about these issues. doesn’t want us to be sick. My sisters now make sure they wash their hands before eating Pete and the Absolute Radio team trailed the work and after visiting extensively and have shared information about the Safe Pair of Hands campaign on their website and via social Members of the Vuku Sasa the toilet.” media, helping spread the campaign to a wider audience. pit emptying initiative This desire to spread information fills Makena with The Safe Pair of Hands campaign builds on our the toilets also need to be emptied. I have long been interested in the underlying enthusiasm. learning from a series of Comic Relief funded projects A group of young people have addressed this by starting issues that cause poverty and finding providing more than 10 years of experience working with “I want to be a an initiative emptying pit latrines. Called Vuku Sasa; communities to improve urban sanitation in Kisumu. journalist when I solutions to them. Although the experience

this initiative includes health and safety training, Photo: Patrick Meinhardt Sustainable management of the sanitation process, from grow up. I love it was shocking, it was inspiring to see the provision of equipment and disposal of the waste at a origin to safe disposal is crucial to the success of this work. when you explore municipal plant. They are providing a vital service in an transformative effect that Practical Action and learn about The water table is very high in Kisumu so when it rains, area that is unlikely to have a mains sewerage system things, so you can has on the lives of people in Kisumu.” toilets often overflow into the street. Better constructed anytime soon and at the same time building a take the news to toilets and septic tanks will help solve this problem but sustainable business to earn their living. the people.” Find out more on absoluteradio.co.uk/kenya

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8 Small World Small World 9 A volunteer community member demonstrating INDIA how diarrhoeal disease is spread through faecal matter Photo: Patrick Meinhardt Where there’s muck, there’s brass They may be unfamiliar with this Yorkshire proverb in Bangladesh, but communities in the city of Faridpur are putting it into practice.

In partnership with the local authority, Practical Action Sweepers Association by the Mayor of Faridpur. This has been working in the slums of Faridpur for several transporter is affordable to run and maintain. It is years, to address the problem of human waste disposal. small enough to transport waste safely. Waste extracted from pit toilets used to be dumped on Photo: Gunjan Barua disused land or in local rivers, creating serious health SAFE PAIR OF HANDS hazards. As a result of our partnership, Faridpur now has a faecal sludge treatment plant where pit emptiers can take the waste they extract from the toilet pits, Community-led solutions using new mechanical gulpers. The project involves creating a market for compost Improving sanitation and hygiene depends heavily on community involvement: made from the waste. Pit emptiers are able to supplement their income by selling the compost. It is Sludge transporter Practical Action is working to galvanise local • Calculating the volume of faeces present in the sold to a regional network of 8,000 smallholder farmers, communities in Kisumu to improve their environment, community. for whom it offers valuable organic matter to improve by addressing the problem of open defecation. • Placing bread and faeces side by side to show the flies soil productivity. Before going on sale, the compost was So that other cities can share the benefits, we’re moving from one to another. extensively tested to assure it was safe to handle. working with the Bangladesh government on their plans for faecal sludge management. This will ensure that the • Clean water, which is then polluted by faeces needs of poor communities and the health and safety It’s one thing to build toilets, but that’s on a stick, and people no longer want to drink it. “We care about soil and we believe good of workers are taken into account. We look forward to not the answer. What matters is that they seeing the transformation of other poor communities are used by everyone all the time. Along with improved hand-washing hygiene, achieving quality soil can guarantee good harvest. who choose to make brass from their muck, in an open defecation-free environment, where everyone That’s why we are here to buy the compost.” Bangladesh and other countries we work in. Thank you has access to and uses a toilet, will improve the health of for supporting us to make this possible. everyone in the community. Asarun Begum, Farmer Convincing landlords to provide sanitation facilities is vital in these urban areas, where most families are The Safe Pair of Hands campaign is an excellent tenants. Forums for landlords are an opportunity to To learn more about this work go to example of how life-changing, Practical Action’s We also provided a locally assembled sludge transporter discuss how sickness from water-borne diseases practicalaction.org/faridpur community-led approach to delivering sustainable with a capacity of 1.5m3, which was presented to the can reduce income and make rent payments a solutions can be. Together with the support of challenge, as well as explain legal requirements everyone involved – we are creating a future where for sanitation provision. poor communities are self-sufficient and resilient, and there is no better time to donate. A group of sanitation champions are being trained to facilitate change in their communities. By using Until 8 February 2018, your donation will be matched triggering (demonstrations to explain how an by the UK Government to fund our Safe Pair of Hands environment polluted with faeces is damaging to work in Kisumu, Kenya. Donations from everyone’s health) the demand for change from individuals in the UK will be doubled up the communities themselves is triggered. to a total of £5 million. Some of the ways we do this in Kisumu are: • Community mapping of sites where people defecate in the open, followed by a guided walk to show how To support the Safe Pair of Hands campaign go to practicalaction.org/sw65

widespread the problem is in the area. Photo: Pritum Kumar Saha

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12 Small World Small World 13 FUNDRAISING FUNDRAISING Photo: Simon Reeve Travel presenter and author Simon Reeve presents Remembering fulfilling a life-time ambition whilst fundraising for us. Over the years Simon raised and donated thousands of pounds, enabling us to help some of the poorest people Radio 4 charit y appeal Simon Speirs in the world through our work. Practical Action Chief Executive, Paul Smith Lomas said: We are delighted to have been able to share the story of Last year, staff at Practical Action Simon Reeve were saddened to learn of the death Eveness, a farmer in Malawi struggling to feed her son, “Simon’s incredible courage in taking on the as part of our Radio 4 appeal. of long-term supporter Simon Speirs. Round the World race was featured in the last edition of Small World magazine. My Photo: Elvin S Banda Eveness and her son, make a difference to the lives of more people thoughts are with his family at this time and Juma, have benefited like Eveness. Photo: Credit: Margaret Speirs from our solar energy I thank them for his support over the years.” project in Malawi, a In Malawi, farmers like Eveness are struggling to grow country blighted enough food to feed their families. This is where Practical Simon is survived by his beloved wife Margaret; mother by drought. Action comes in; we work with communities to help families access electricity through solar power, so they can to his treasured children: Katherine, Mike, Edward Simon Reeve, TV water their crops and no longer go hungry. Access to the and Toby; and Katherine and Mike’s spouses, Tom and presenter and author, right technologies transforms lives – for good. Simon Speirs Jen - whom he was so proud to welcome into his family agreed to support us in recent years. He is also survived by his father, John by recording a very Having the Radio 4 appeal, presented by Simon, has been and sister, Sarah. a real honour for Practical Action, as well as a great way to On 19 November, Simon died in a sailing accident while special message for competing in the Clipper Round the World yacht race. BBC Radio 4 listeners, share our life-changing work with so many more people. You can find out more about the fascinating which you may have He supported Practical Action for more than 20 years, and endearing Simon and his challenge on his heard in September To find out more, visit taking on a different charitable challenge each year. blog - which he regularly updated during the race. Eveness and Juma outside 2017. The appeal raised practicalaction.org/radio4 Last year was no exception; as he embarked on the their home Visit simonroundtheworld.wordpress.com over £40,000, which will 11 month nautical adventure back in August 2017,

New Year fundraising ideas Spoonfest

to transform lives in 2018 Our supporters are constantly Photo: (Spoonfest) surprising us with the novel ways The January clear out Live below the line they fundraise for Practical Action! Robin Wood, Spoonfest organiser, After Christmas festivities, January inevitably brings Millions of people across the world live on less than holding a giant hand-carved spoon a New Year clear out. It’s the perfect opportunity £1 a day. Put yourself in their shoes and see if you ‘Spoonfest’ – the international celebration of the carved to part with unwanted items while raising money can spend a week living below the poverty line. At wooden spoon – is a three-day event which takes place “We chose this charity because its philosophy for an important cause, so gather your friends and the beginning of the week do a food shop that totals every summer in the heart of the Peak District. The event’s resonates with the thinking behind Spoonfest: the neighbours into a community space and hold an no more than £7. That means no gifts or free cakes 240 attendees and organisers have been supporting use of appropriate technology, sharing skills so that indoor car boot! You could even set up a refreshments on Cake Friday either! Ask your friends, family and Practical Action for seven years. stand to boost your fundraising efforts. colleagues to sponsor you to take on this challenge. people can learn to do things for themselves, using If you attend a local church, you could encourage After a hard day of attending workshops and carving local materials.” the congregation to support you to live below the line spoons, attendees can relax around the campfire, chat, Movie night There are many ways that you can turn your hobby, or during Lent. sing songs and eat wood-fired pizza. Find a friend with the biggest TV or borrow a projector interest, into a great fundraiser for Practical Action. and use your community hall or school to showcase The proceeds from the bar and pizza oven have been a movie of your choice. Ask your local community If you’re planning to hold, or take part in, an event for generously donated to Practical Action, raising a fantastic to contribute, bringing food or drink along to share. If you or your community is thinking of holding an Practical Action, we’d love to hear from you so we can £14,000 so far. Instead of adverts, you can show videos about event to raise money for Practical Action, get in support your fundraising efforts. Practical Action’s work so people can see where their touch at [email protected] to find out One of the event organisers, David Mount, describes why donations are going. Plenty of videos can be found on how we can support you. he and his fellow spoon enthusiasts are so enthused by Get in touch at [email protected] our website. Practical Action’s work: or visit practicalaction.org/fundraise

14 Small World Small World 15 “To talk about the future is useful only if With love, always it leads to action now”. Making an In Memory donation will make a In Memory giving is an incredibly thoughtful way of paying tribute to a loved one, at a funeral or on a special date such as lasting difference. a birthday. We are truly grateful for all such donations. Practical Action founder, E. F. Schumacher Not long ago, Frank sent us a lovely letter, enclosing a collection taken at his mother Norma’s funeral. He told us how enthusiastic she was about practical ways of helping people to climb out of poverty, and that’s why she’d always supported Practical Action. It’s wonderful and humbling to know that her family wanted to pay tribute by making donations to her favourite charity. This tribute collection will make a lasting impact, long into the future, by funding simple solutions to improve the lives of women, men and children in some of the world’s poorest countries.

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