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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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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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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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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Linking football and water
March 4th, 2014
Finding a fit between football and rainwater harvesting is thinking way outside the box. And yet this is exactly what an organization with the distinctive name PITCH_Africa has done. PITCH_Africa…
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Asbestos fibres and the impact of the new public housing model
March 3rd, 2014
A note sent to HH from Central Australia highlights not just asbestos risks, but how these risks have increased with the change in the control of Indigenous housing. For the…
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Housing for Health – TEDx Sydney to California
February 25th, 2014
This short talk is about Housing for Health, and the connection between your health, the living environment and design. Presented in May 2013 at TEDx in the Sydney Opera House,…
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The new toilet
February 23rd, 2014
The Gates Foundation held a competition for a new toilet to improve the world. The competition winners have been working on the constructing the final product, and it is ready…
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