WaterAid

WaterAid Southern Africa is an international non-profit organisation that was set up in 1981 as a response to the United Nations (UN) International Drinking Water and Sanitation. They are determined to make clean water, reliable toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone, everywhere within a generation. Since 1981, they have empowered millions of people with clean water, 25.1 millions of people with reliable toilets.

Dirty water causes Diarrhea and poor toilets kills almost 800 children a day, indecent toilets and lack of good hygiene keeps kids out of school, adults out of work and traps people in poverty but the human rights to water entitles everyone to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible, and affordable water for personal and domestic (household) use.

Chilutya Chileshe who is the Regional Advocacy Manager at WaterAid Southern Africa talked about the conference they are having on 18-22 February 2019 under the theme of African Sanitation Conference.

2.5 million of people over the globe still don't have access to clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene and sanitation which is defined as a system for the collection, transport, treatment, disposal, or reuse of human excreta seems to be a luxury for many.

As sanitation is still an issue to tackle, the conference would be addressing matters such as sanitation crisis in the world, improvements and how Africa should learn to solve its sanitation crisis, female friendly toilets, partnerships....

For more information contact:
Web: www. wateraid.org/us/

                                            
                                          By: Panphil Tshisumpa