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A man turns on a tap at a newly installed metal public handwashing station

Keeping the public safe: SNV and partners deliver 77 tap points for handwashing and drinking

Posted on Thursday, October 01, 2020 08:20 PM

District Governor using the accessible handwashing station at the Punakha Dzong entrance  (SNV in Bhutan/Tashi Dorji)

 

Rapid and collaborative response...

Young school girl washes her hands carefully at a handwashing station at school

Handwashing: a critical starting point for healthy communities and a first response to a crisis

Posted on Friday, September 25, 2020 04:47 PM

The sudden and rapid onset of COVID-19 globally was met with great anxiety in Solomon Islands where a weak and under-resourced health system, coupled with shortages of locally...

Group of hospital workers washing their hands at a long steel handwashing station

No one left behind: Building capacity of all in healthcare facilities in Myanmar

Posted on Friday, September 25, 2020 04:28 PM

 

In five townships in the Ayeyarwaddy Region of Myanmar, WaterAid is promoting adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and infection prevention and control (IPC) as...

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Dispelling myths, raising awareness and preparing for COVID-19 in remote Papua New Guinea

Posted on Friday, September 11, 2020 12:45 AM

When word of a new, unknown and potentially deadly virus started spreading in Papua New Guinea (PNG), many people were terrified. 

Understanding little about COVID-19, its...

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Growing from Strength to Strength: the Ruteng women PAR group tackles COVID-19

Posted on Tuesday, September 08, 2020 04:15 PM

As you weave through the rolling landscape of Eastern Indonesia, up along mountain ridges, past lines of banana trees, clusters of coffee plants and cattle wandering alongside...

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