Sanitation Studio Nepal 2014 – telling the story
January 18th, 2014
How do you tell the story of the Village Sanitation Program, in a short time, to a diverse audience of potential supporters? This was the problem put to Australian film…
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Sanitation Studio Nepal 2014 – maintenance
January 17th, 2014
Maintenance of the toilets and waste treatment systems built by the Sanitation Program is essential for continued function and health improvement. Village leaders have the trained construction teams to carry…
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Sanitation Studio Nepal 2014 – plumbing works
January 17th, 2014
The combination of two skilled international plumbers and a skilled and enthusiastic local team leads to good work. Take Jed Scheuermann (IAPMO) and Andrew Whalan (Worldskills) and mix them with locals Dorje…
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Work commences, Sanitation Studio Nepal 2014
January 16th, 2014
Thanks to Worldskills Foundation, IAPMO, the World Plumbing Council, RMIT and several generous donors to Healthabitat, a diverse group of visitors to the Village Sanitation Program has joined the local…
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Sanitation Studio Nepal 2014
January 10th, 2014
A diverse group made including architecture students, plumbers and film maker will combine with the local, long term HH Nepali partner, CHDS, the construction team and 3 villages to work…
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Nepal Sanitation Studio 2013 … a year on
January 7th, 2014
One of the results of the Sanitation Studio, run in early 2013, was a kit to help the local Nepal team site all the toilet and waste treatment system components….
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Housing and health – the universal impacts
December 23rd, 2013
The authors Dr Emma BakerDr Laurence LesterProfessor Andrew BeerMs Kate MasonDr Rebecca Bentley Abstract Housing is a central component of productive, healthy and meaningful lives, and a principle social determinant of…
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Health Hardware Design: A Design Research Journey Towards A Healthier Australian Indigenous Living Environment
December 5th, 2013
This design book showcases ‘his sustained commitment to improving standards of Indigenous Australian Environmental Health through his innovative designs of health hardware’. Christian sets out the applied design research…
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HH and Sticky Situations
December 3rd, 2013
Have a look at Sticky Solutions particularly the work with WASSUP. HH is currently seeing if there are any particular issues that we can assist with in their tough, daily…
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50% of website traffic
November 22nd, 2013
For over 2 months, 50% of Healthabitat website traffic has been international visitors. HH notes this trend and also that the enquiries coming to the site are from an increasingly…
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High hopes for “the indigenous dozen”
November 22nd, 2013
Patricia Karvelas writes in The Australian – “Tony Abbott has recruited 12 of the most powerful business and indigenous figures in the country to provide advice on Aboriginal economic reform, including…
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Rumours of a ‘new’ National Indigenous Housing Guide?
November 21st, 2013
A contract being awarded to the Centre for Appropriate Technology (CAT) to produce a new edition of the National Indigenous Housing Guide (the 4th?) was rumoured. CAT produced the National…
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