Combine some skilled visiting plumbers, local support from Sticky Situations and the Diepsloot based WASSUP team and you have change for the better in a tough part of Johannesburg, South…
HH, in conjunction with our Rotary partners and the villages who previously have participated in the Village Health Improvement Program (Sanitation Program), have been working hard for the people who…
Question: How to solve a really tough problem with limited resources when the solution may help millions of people? Answer: Mix together some of the smartest young minds in the…
The 2015 Health Improvement Design Studio in Nepal continues to yield results … but further afield than Nepal. Swathi Saralaya, an environmental engineer from India employed by IAPMO, attended the…
A newly emerging Australian organisation called Waste Aid has goals that reverberate with the work and methods of HH. Waste management is not sexy but it is essential. It is…
The local village committees advised on the contents of the packs and have arranged fair distribution to all according to need. A local Nepali businessman helped procure the goods at…
A high priority before the wet season commences, kitchen shelters are being constructed nearby to family emergency living shelters. The local village construction team that worked on the Sanitation program…
In February 2015 a group of university architecture and design students travelled to the Shree Jalapadevi school in Nepal to help design better sanitation facilities. A visit to the school…
With the wet season approaching, and only emergency shelter able to provided, an additional place to allow the safe storage, preparation and cooking of food is high on the priority…
HH is on the ground in Nepal and after linking up with Rotary, the Nepali construction team and Village partners can report the following. Apologies for all those anxious to…
Another earthquake has hit Nepal at a magnitude of 7.3. Paul Pholeros (Healthabitat) and Sandra Meihubers (Teeth & Toilets) arrived in Nepal yesterday and have confirmed they are safe and…
Bishnu Shrestha, manager of the Nepal Village Development Project and the Teeth and Toilets program, has sent a report containing some graphic images of the destruction in the first village to…