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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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February 5th, 2014
On 4th Feb 2014 Healthabitat and WorldSkills Australia Foundation hosted a workshop for HH volunteers to tackle some detailed design problems for toilets in Diepsloot SA. At the end of…
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January 21st, 2014
Poor people need the very best design for one simple reason – it is essential for their survival – they have few options. Design alchemy transforms mediocre, leaden design into…
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January 20th, 2014
Here are some thoughts, and a call for action, generated on the narrow paths between project sites in the hills of Nepal about the value of universities, professions, trades and…
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