Africa Has Just Six Years To Realise The Water, Sanitation And Hygiene SDG

The race is on to realise the most fundamental of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – ensuring that everyone has access to water, sanitation and hygiene services – by the 2030 deadline, says ForAfrika disaster response director Charles Wentzel. There are six years to go, and ForAfrika, the largest African humanitarian development organisation, is doing […]

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WASH Interventions Key To Reaching Africa’s Child Health Milestones

By Joyce Chimbi For two days in a row back in 2018, four-year-old Calvin Otieno suffered from diarrhoea and vomiting, and his mother responded by giving him a salt solution. Pearl Otieno tells IPS that diarrhoea among children in Kibera, the largest urban informal settlement, is commonplace. A mixture of salt and warm water is often […]

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