Autumn 2016 Your WaterAid magazine

Toilets ensure opportunity

Making inroads in Cambodia Out and about Chief Executive message

With a stellar line up of some and paid to pee by donating of ’s best loved a gold coin every time they A sporting chance It’s no comedians including Dave visited the loo on World Thornton, Tommy Little, Fiona Day. Sport has an amazing communities to develop an education in Timor-Leste O’Loughlin, Dave O’Neil, joke Having a day all about ability to connect people understanding of the issues and see the incredible Lawrence Mooney and Anne may seem funny, but for and drive community girls and women face in differences in what mothers Edmonds, WaterAid hosted on World millions of people around the involvement, empowerment accessing water, pack in their hospital a comedy gala on the eve of world it’s no laughing matter. and change. As sport is and hygiene, finishing maternity bags around in November. Toilet Day A shocking one in three of present in every country school, escaping poverty the world depending on The event got everyone the world’s population do and culture in the world, and being empowered. the quality of healthcare laughing and helped raise not have access to a safe and WaterAid is harnessing facilities. This edition also awareness about the lack of private toilet. sports’ power to unite and WaterAid is undertaking a looks at our work in one sanitation worldwide, as it’s appeal to mass audiences new and innovative ‘Sports of our newest country Many people have no choice no joke 2.3 billion people in an innovative way to for Development’ program programs, Cambodia. What did one but to face the indignity of don’t have access to a safe achieve WaterAid’s global in Papua New Guinea toilet say to the going to the loo in the open, toilet. strategy of reaching because the empowerment As always thank you for other? where they are exposed to everyone, everywhere by of women and girls, and your ongoing and essential Across Australia, supporters disease and vulnerable to You look flushed! 2030 with safe water, sports participation can be support to help improve hosted comedy events, harassment and even attack. sanitation and hygiene. used to improve conditions. people’s lives. shared jokes on social media WaterAid is working This is why WaterAid is through local NGOs and working with the netball sporting federations, community to use sport to at national, provincial, Everyone loves a improve gender equality, district and local levels, laugh, and what better women’s empowerment to pilot water, sanitation way to acknowledge and access to services in and hygiene, and gender World Toilet Day than Papua New Guinea. projects which utilise sport as the primary interface with humour. I had the opportunity to with schools, communities take WaterAid Ambassador and organisations. and Melbourne Vixen netballer Liz Watson I hope you enjoy this to Papua New Guinea edition of Oasis. You can recently to meet the Papua read about how toilets have Paul Nichols New Guinean national provided opportunities Chief Executive netball team, and visit for girls to continue their WaterAid Australia

WaterAid transforms the lives of the poorest and most Comedian Dave Thornton tells some marginalised people by improving access to safe School’s Pre-Secondary Ailuli at Students image: Cover Timor-Leste. in block toilet renovated newly jokes at WaterAid’s World Toilet Day 2 comedy gala. 3 Photo: WaterAid/James Grant WaterAid/James Photo: water, sanitation and hygiene. Thank you! Sports for development

Healthy kids, Sport connects and empowers

“The health and wellbeing Travelling with WaterAid WaterAid is using sport productive community of young women around and Netball Victoria, Liz was as a way to engage with the world is something I hosted by Netball Papua New communities in Papua Thanks to your and other WaterAid am extremely passionate Guinea and their national New Guinea about the supporters’ generous donations, about. Sport is a vehicle team captain Lua Rikis to learn benefits of water, sanitation Leonie, Stella, Joab and their family that encourages self-esteem about the challenges facing and hygiene and to and leadership, while water, young women in Papua New empower communities and community now have safe sanitation and hygiene are Guinea in accessing safe water, to demand better access water, clean toilets and hygiene. vital to improving health, sanitation and hygiene, their to these services from reducing poverty and difficulties completing school their governments. Sport Their village has tanks for rain ensuring girls stay in school,” and the lack of gender equality. has a universal ability to water harvesting, households says WaterAid Ambassador connect people and drive have built hygienic toilets Liz Watson. community involvement and and community members empowerment. have participated in hygiene In December the Melbourne education. Their children Vixens and Australian Liz visited a WaterAid project aren’t sick any more from Diamonds netballer at a school in Port Moresby diseases which could have visited WaterAid to play netball with girls, and potentially claimed their lives. Leonie and her children Stella and baby Joab now have projects in Papua visited communities in East They can go to school. access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene in their village New Guinea. Sepik and maternal health thanks to WaterAid supporters’ generous donations. Greenwood WaterAid/Tom Photo: facilities in Mt Hagen.

Leonie and her family are I share what I have learnt and I grow banana, cucumber, benefiting from lessons experiences I have seen.” taro, green vegetables. I grow “It was fantastic learnt in hygiene training. it to sell at market and to to meet people “I had never attended Leonie is finding that, “The feed the family.” children aren’t sick any hygiene training before… in Papua New more…what I am practising is Her husband and brother- I learnt about washing hands Guinea and see the helping with the family.” in-law Emmanuel have built after using the toilet, that an improved toilet for the difference having we have to cover food from Now that she doesn’t have to household. “When we go to access to clean, flies, water collected from fetch water from a dirty creek the toilet in the bushes it is safe water makes waterholes must be covered. or look after sick children she not safe, people can look at to the community,” I didn’t do this before the has extra time for productive us, flies can come and the says Liz. training. It is important to do activities such as gardening. toilet is open. This toilet is this to stop germs, that’s “I clean the garden, plant the safer, cleaner, people can’t why I should wash hands. garden, make sure it’s clean. look at us,” says Emmanuel. WaterAid Ambassador Liz Watson with Roccu Primary School student Boio, a netball centre 4 5

Photo: WaterAid/Tom Greenwood WaterAid/Tom Photo: on her school team in Papua New Guinea. Education New country program

their periods, students like Madelena can focus on their Toilets ensure education and future. Madelena, 15 says, “Toilets opportunity are small things but they can help us realise our dreams because with a toilet we don’t The widespread lack of disrepair, dysfunctional miss school and with a toilet access to toilets and and unhygienic. Students we can focus on our study. water in the world has a had to go to the toilet in My dream in the future is to devastating impact on girls nearby bushes. be a doctor because doctors and women. The lack of WaterAid renovated the can help others and can save Making inroads Children in Cambodia will hygiene facilities in schools people’s lives.” benefit from WaterAid’s work toilets and provided to support the government’s is a major reason for girls goal for universal water and menstrual hygiene “Not only did we get a toilet dropping out of school when sanitation coverage. King WaterAid/Rhiannon Photo: management training for in Cambodia they reach puberty. This but we got information from students and staff to help curtails their education and WaterAid about periods… students manage their before we got instruction the opportunity to take the We are now educating the sanitation problem periods effectively and to from WaterAid my mother told Cambodia is one first essential steps out of community members faced by Cambodia’s dispel myths. me things like I can’t of the newest poverty. throughout Cambodia about floating villages and is eat chilli when I have my countries where The students decorated the guidelines through partnering with a social In the Manufahi district period, but when I got the rehabilitated toilets by WaterAid is working. creative video and drama enterprise to test floating of Timor-Leste, Ailuli Pre- information from WaterAid I painting pictures on the performances. toilets containing man-made Secondary School’s toilet learnt I can do anything when Gender equity, disability walls. wetlands of water hyacinths I get my period.” and citizen action block had been abandoned We have been working with to process waste. and unused for several Now that they no longer miss have been the focus underprivileged people years because it was in total school when they have of our initial work in in urban communities Many healthcare facilities Cambodia to support the in Siem Reap to trial the in Cambodia have ageing government’s ambitious effectiveness of citizen and dilapidated water and goal for universal water action techniques to sanitation services. We and sanitation coverage encourage community are supporting a baseline by 2025. lobbing of local assessment of water, governments for better water sanitation and hygiene We have been working and sanitation services. services in healthcare with the government facilities in three provinces on national guidelines The 100,000 people living and will provide technical for inclusive water, on Tonle Sap Lake’s floating support and training to sanitation and hygiene, villages go to the toilet in the government to integrate to ensure these services lake that is the same water water, sanitation and are available to all used for fishing, washing hygiene into health facilities. irrespective of disability, and cooking. WaterAid is Madelena (second from left) with fellow students outside the new toilet block at gender and status. looking at new solutions to 6 7

Ailuli Pre-Secondary School in Manufahi district, Timor-Leste. Greenwood WaterAid/Tom Photo: Technology

1 A private squat toilet on the back of a house connects to a drum where the raw sewage goes through anaerobic (oxygen-less) HandyPods processes.

2 Waste then passes to the Building safe and sustainable HandyPod floating nearby. sanitation systems is a huge challenge for any poor 3 Microbes around the plants’ community, but where homes roots further break down harmful are built over water the technical substances. obstacles are even greater. 1

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2 Illustration: peter-mac.com Illustration:

In Cambodia, over More than 100,000 people wash dishes and clothes, and The HandyPod is a basic For the HandyPod to succeed, If the Pods are successful, the a quarter of the live on Tonle Sap Lake – young children swim in it. water-purifying system people need to understand next step will be to get the Southeast ’s largest body population lives resembling a floating garden. the benefits of buying their government and private of fresh water. When they need A social enterprise called This small man-made wetland own toilet. sector to roll them out to in challenging to go to the toilet, they take Wetlands Work has created a of water hyacinths helps make challenging environments environments such as a boat to a secluded spot, go sanitation solution with lots toilet waste safe enough to WaterAid and Wetlands across the country. floating villages. into surrounding forest, or at of potential. With funding pass into the lake without Work are working with the night may squat off the side from Grand Challenges causing any harm. communities to change of their floating house. People , WaterAid is partnering unhealthy habits, and use this same lake water to with them to test the helping local businesses to HandyPod with Tonle Sap’s sell the Pods. 8 floating communities. 9 Photos: WaterAid/Jenny Lewis the baby in,clothes for the including blankets to wrap world have incommon, women from around the maternity bag items that There areseveral key savers, orsimple luxuries. hospital might belife- choose to take to the theitemsbirth, women the world they aregiving Depending onwherein isunveiled. bags around theglobe pack intheirmaternity torches, to toiletries, what women from From plastic sheets, razor blades and Healthcare facilities bag? maternity What’s inthe 10 their labour. hygienic conditions during clean water, sanitation and on thehospital having by whetherthey can rely mums arelargely dictated the items packed by new whereshockinglybirth, nations face whengiving women from developing Yet therearechallenges or flask. baby, and awater bottle

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Photos: WaterAid/James Grant Photos: WaterAid/Chileshe Chanda Zambia Hazel Australia Katy She explains she too has health centre in Zambia. 27-year-old Hazel at a It’s asimilar story for environment,” says Katy. cleanvery and sterile and the hospital is a has hygienic facilities, inAustraliaeverywhere place is because Iknow question how hygienic a “Inever equipment. to sterilise operating to wash theirhands, or water for themidwives where thereis noclean giving inaplace birth she can’t comprehend Melbourne, and says Katy Shaw lives in to take aplastic sheet for and thebed, says: “We have aborehole at theclinic but there is norunning water inthe maternity ward.” and promotion. to good hygiene practice toilets and arecommitted water, have adequate accesshave clean to all healthcare facilities WaterAid wants to ensure an unclean environment. lack of safe water and infection caused by a babies regularly diefrom and Zambia,newborn In countries like Malawi 11 Your support makes a difference

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