Children start collecting water as soon as they can walk!!
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Gender and Water Access
This video shows some of the water-related challenges that face women in Tanzania’s financial capital Dar es Salaam. The video features interviews and information on United Nations' and Tanzanian water policies. The video has been made by Robert Roy Hoffman Castaños in a collaboration between the United Nations Associations of Norway and Tanzania and FK-Norway.
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/gender-and-water-access/3844482183
PCI fight for clean water in tanzania
Lack of immediate access to water can have adverse effects on the health and development of a community, and especially affects the women and children of the community. In many parts of Tanzania, women and children spend an average of 6-8 hours per day accessing clean water. This can prevent some children, especially girls, from attending school, since water is usually collected by girls. Traversing long distances also leads to more danger for women and girls- including sexual assault, and rape. Children also frequently miss school due to illness, stemming not only from water-borne diseases, but also from walking long distances without shoes.
PCI has been working for many years in the area of water, sanitation, and environmental health. We have found that freeing up time for women and girls who spend hours each day collecting water positively impacts their health, education, and overall well-being, which in turn leads to positive community development and capacity building.
We firmly believe that community involvement is crucial to the success of our programs. Collaborating with community leaders is an essential part of the process to assess local needs and make decisions that would best benefit the local people. To this end, PCI has teamed up with the district council in Babati, a region in north-eastern Tanzania, and another community-based organization called ADRA/Tanzania to implement our newest water and sanitation project, called the Babati Health Through Water and Sanitation Project, funded by the Starbucks Foundation-Ethos Water Fund. This project will provide safe water for at least 30,000 people in the Babati region of Tanzania, as well as education programs for better sanitation and hygiene practices to mitigate the incidence of water-borne diseases. The project will also build rainwater harvest systems in schools within the area, so that children will have access to clean water while they are in school.
PCI has carried out successful water and sanitation projects in Central America, India, and Indonesia, and hopes to add Tanzania to the list of sustainable water projects in which women and children especially reap the benefits.
PCI has been working for many years in the area of water, sanitation, and environmental health. We have found that freeing up time for women and girls who spend hours each day collecting water positively impacts their health, education, and overall well-being, which in turn leads to positive community development and capacity building.
We firmly believe that community involvement is crucial to the success of our programs. Collaborating with community leaders is an essential part of the process to assess local needs and make decisions that would best benefit the local people. To this end, PCI has teamed up with the district council in Babati, a region in north-eastern Tanzania, and another community-based organization called ADRA/Tanzania to implement our newest water and sanitation project, called the Babati Health Through Water and Sanitation Project, funded by the Starbucks Foundation-Ethos Water Fund. This project will provide safe water for at least 30,000 people in the Babati region of Tanzania, as well as education programs for better sanitation and hygiene practices to mitigate the incidence of water-borne diseases. The project will also build rainwater harvest systems in schools within the area, so that children will have access to clean water while they are in school.
PCI has carried out successful water and sanitation projects in Central America, India, and Indonesia, and hopes to add Tanzania to the list of sustainable water projects in which women and children especially reap the benefits.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Clean water empowers women
Millions of women in the developing world spend hours each day collecting water. The water they find is often dirty and contaminated, meaning their families get sick from diseases such as cholera, typhoid and dysentery.
The burden of care for sick family members usually also falls to women, leaving women with little time or energy left for productive work.
WaterAid and our local partner organizations help poor communities in developing countries to gain access to clean water supplies and sanitation. Our projects are very empowering for women, who are freed from hours of water-carrying labor.
http://www.wateraidamerica.org/images/2008/t/1_tz35_552.JPG
http://www.wateraidamerica.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/tanzania/clean_water_empowers_women.aspx
Wastewater treatment in Tanzania: Research paper
Constructed wetlands for waste-water treatment in Tanzania
Masudi, A.S, Mashauri, D.A, Mayo, A.W, and Mbwette, T.S.A.
University of Dar es Salaam,
http://www.udsm.ac.tz/faculty/foe/wetlands/
Masudi, A.S, Mashauri, D.A, Mayo, A.W, and Mbwette, T.S.A.
University of Dar es Salaam,
http://www.udsm.ac.tz/faculty/foe/wetlands/
Thousands die in Tanzania because of poor sanitation
THISDAY REPORTER, Dar es Salaam
WATER-BORNE diseases such as cholera, dysentery, typhoid and diarrhoea claim thousands of lives in Tanzania every year as a result of poor sanitation services, it has been underscored. A research official with WaterAid Tanzania, Ben Taylor, told THISDAY that between 2004 and 2005, nationwide there were 12,923 reported cases of cholera with 350 deaths, 154,551 cases of dysentery with 170 deaths, and 863,488 cases of typhoid with 1,167 deaths.
On a global scale, 5,000 children die around the world every day as a result of such water-borne diseases. Taylor said the figures are likely to be well under the actual numbers, as inadequate and unreliable data conceals thousands of deaths while many thousands die each year from diarrhoea - 90 per cent of them being children.
According to a specialist with the country’s Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP), Nathaniel Paynter, 17 per cent of under-five deaths are attributable to diarrhoeal diseases, making it the second largest killer of children after pneumonia.
http://www.thisday.co.tz/News/5071.html
WATER-BORNE diseases such as cholera, dysentery, typhoid and diarrhoea claim thousands of lives in Tanzania every year as a result of poor sanitation services, it has been underscored. A research official with WaterAid Tanzania, Ben Taylor, told THISDAY that between 2004 and 2005, nationwide there were 12,923 reported cases of cholera with 350 deaths, 154,551 cases of dysentery with 170 deaths, and 863,488 cases of typhoid with 1,167 deaths.
On a global scale, 5,000 children die around the world every day as a result of such water-borne diseases. Taylor said the figures are likely to be well under the actual numbers, as inadequate and unreliable data conceals thousands of deaths while many thousands die each year from diarrhoea - 90 per cent of them being children.
According to a specialist with the country’s Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP), Nathaniel Paynter, 17 per cent of under-five deaths are attributable to diarrhoeal diseases, making it the second largest killer of children after pneumonia.
http://www.thisday.co.tz/News/5071.html
Waterborne diseases in Tanzania leave 1 dead, 202 sick
ZANZIBAR, Tanzania:
Waterborne disease has killed one person and hospitalized 202 more in Zanzibar's main town and Tanzania's capital, largely due to a shortage of drinking water and poor sanitation services, officials said Friday. In the capital, Dar es Salaam, one person has died from cholera and 56 others have contracted the disease, said Gastor Mwakembe, spokesman for the city council. He said all the cases come from the most densely populated section of the city and that a health education program was under way.
Cholera is spread by contaminated water and food. "We appeal to residents to observe health regulations, including boiling drinking water," Mwakembe said. In Zanzibar, an archipelago off Tanzania's coast, 146 patients have been admitted to hospital for dysentery since Oct. 20, Health and Social Welfare Minister Sultan Mugheiry said. He added that most of the victims were children.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/10/africa/AF_GEN_Tanzania_Waterborne_Diseases.php
Waterborne disease has killed one person and hospitalized 202 more in Zanzibar's main town and Tanzania's capital, largely due to a shortage of drinking water and poor sanitation services, officials said Friday. In the capital, Dar es Salaam, one person has died from cholera and 56 others have contracted the disease, said Gastor Mwakembe, spokesman for the city council. He said all the cases come from the most densely populated section of the city and that a health education program was under way.
Cholera is spread by contaminated water and food. "We appeal to residents to observe health regulations, including boiling drinking water," Mwakembe said. In Zanzibar, an archipelago off Tanzania's coast, 146 patients have been admitted to hospital for dysentery since Oct. 20, Health and Social Welfare Minister Sultan Mugheiry said. He added that most of the victims were children.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/10/africa/AF_GEN_Tanzania_Waterborne_Diseases.php
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