Incremental improvement
April 9th, 2014
This has been the case with the toilet and water point maintenance assessment system being developed by WASSUP (Sth Africa) and some very talented architecture students in Australia. The need…
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Pre-schools in the slum areas of Ahmedabad, India
April 8th, 2014
What we see in reading about the Anganwadi Project are many of the principles at work in Housing for Health. We hope you enjoy reading about the project and the exciting…
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Plumbers and health – what a good idea
April 3rd, 2014
Whether in Australia, Nepal, Bangladesh or South Africa, Healthabitat needs little convincing about how the work of plumbers contributes to improving health. So it is a great leap forward to…
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The spread of Housing for Health: The Guide
April 2nd, 2014
Since the launch in early October 2013, Housing for Health: The Guide, the number of people visiting the site has grown and the spread has broadened from Australia to an…
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Work continues in Nepal
March 31st, 2014
Following the Nepal Sanitation Studio 2014, exciting works have been continued by the local team. There are many different works being completed concurrently in 3 villages. In the first village…
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TED X – a year on
March 28th, 2014
Reflections on the TED X talk ‘Housing for Health’ a year on reveal some interesting results. It would be easy to see the whole TED circus as a self promoting…
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Millions of litres of water saved and health hardware improved
March 26th, 2014
After 2 weeks of intensive work by the local WASSUP team and two WorldSkill plumbers, the immediate results of the small works completed on 10 toilet and water points are…
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How an Australian Aboriginal health service is helping an African community
March 16th, 2014
When Yami Lester was the Chairman of Nganampa Health Council in the mid 1980s he summed up the environmental health review work of UPK as “water in, shit out”. The…
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Water in – Diepsloot, Sth Africa, 2014
March 12th, 2014
In 1985 after a few months of the first UPK work (that has led to the Housing for Health program), central Australian health service director Yami Lester noted the work…
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Whoops – when the people are NOT the problem
March 12th, 2014
When working in any poor community, when things fail the people who live there are inevitably blamed with ignorance or vandalism. . . . . When the WASSUP team, assisted…
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Starting work in Diepsloot Sth Africa
March 11th, 2014
WorldSkills plumbers and the local WASSUP team started work on the Diepsloot Sanitation project in Johannesburg. Day 1 involved briefings form the local WASSUP team, a final check of each…
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The Nepal Village Sanitation Program…the movies
March 6th, 2014
Have a look at two short movies, made to capture aspects of the The Nepal Village Sanitation Program. The Nepal Village Sanitation Program The Village Sanitation Program Nepal from…
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