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Access to clean water, improved sanitation, and good hygiene services are essential human rights that significantly improve health, education, and overall well-being. However, in Ethiopia, millions still lack access to these services. Read more...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has partnered with IRC Uganda to improve access to water and sanitation services for vulnerable communities in Kabarole and Bunyangabu districts. Read more...
Bongo district is increasing its reliance on small town water systems to provide safe water in areas where the population is more concentrated. Deep boreholes provide water to storage tanks and standpipes across the area – with the potential also to make household connections. Read more...
Asaloko is a small community in the Bongo district where lives have been transformed through the introduction of safe water and effective sanitation. Householders no longer carry water long distances, children are better able to learn and the whole environment has been cleaned up. Read more...
Roel Blesgraaf looks back on day 2 of the Africa Water Week. Read more...
IRC believes in a world where water, sanitation and hygiene services are fundamental utilities that everyone is able to take for granted, forever. But we are concerned about the pervasive issue of violence against women being subsumed under the urgent need to promote public attention to the global... Read more...