Reports

By Hoby Randrianimanana, WSSCC/SHF Correspondent in Madagascar Hand hygiene is essential for breaking the transmission of diseases from one person to another. Yet, in public places where good hand hygiene is essential, for example, in schools, handwashing…

By Sheila Nduhukire, WSSCC/SHF correspondent in Uganda A flurry of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that good hand hygiene saves lives. But this simple act of washing hands remains out of reach for many communities…

By Hoby Randrianimanana, WSSCC Field Communication Correspondent in Madagascar Barely surviving with the little money she earns from selling recycled items, a 30-year-old single mother in Madagascar’s capital city of Antananarivo is prioritizing to put food on…

By: Kevin Mwanza On a hot and humid July afternoon, Jacob Omondi, a 67-year-old grandfather, sat in his one-roomed windowless mud-walled house in Kibera, an informal settlement on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Omondi suffers from a spinal…

By Kevin Mwanza, WSSCC Correspondent in Kenya Hand hygiene is the first line of defence in preventing the spread of disease in health care facilities. Yet, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), up to 90% of…

Kumi District, Uganda, 16 March 2012 - The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) today allocated US$6 million from its Global Sanitation Fund to help more people in Uganda attain safe sanitation and practice good…