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Belu generates £1 million in one year for WaterAid to bring clean water around the world

Stuart Mitchell

Eight years into their unique partnership, pioneering social enterprise and ethical water company Belu has reached its goal to give WaterAid £1 million in a year, helping transform hundreds of thousands of lives with clean water. By giving 100% of their profits to WaterAid’s work, Belu sets an important example of how charities and businesses with shared values can work together to create social change and transform lives across the world. The success of the partnership lies in their shared vision to bring clean water, decent sanitation and good hygiene…

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Birth traditions: WaterAid presents global snapshot of how new babies are welcomed around the world

Stuart Mitchell

A fascinating new photo series launched by WaterAid reveals the different traditions observed by communities around the world to ‘protect’ mothers and welcome new babies, giving them the best start in life.  From postpartum porridge-making and paint masks to baptisms and beer-brewing, the striking images reveal how eleven countries from the UK to India and Uganda to Sweden celebrate new life.   The touching series is being released by WaterAid as part of its Water Effect campaign, which aims to help protect mothers and ensure all babies have the best…

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The John Lewis Foundation launches partnership with WaterAid to empower artisan communities in India with clean water

Stuart Mitchell

WaterAid has launched a three-year partnership with the John Lewis Foundation, which will help empower communities in Sant Ravi Das Nagar (Bhadohi), India, where John Lewis & Partners carpets are made, by bringing clean water and sanitation to their communities. The Foundation will donate £100,000 per year to provide 15,000 people in Sant Ravi Das Nagar (Bhadohi) district in Uttar Pradesh with clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene, while also running a hygiene education programme to reach more than 100,000 people. Worldwide, one in nine people don’t have clean…

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800 schoolbags line the steps of St Paul’s in moving tribute to daily child deaths

Stuart Mitchell

WaterAid placed 800 children’s schoolbags on the famous steps of St Paul’s Cathedral today as a stark reminder of the number of young children’s lives lost every single day due to dirty water and poor sanitation. Each of the Cathedral’s 24 entrance steps represented one hour – and the 33 children younger than five who die every hour – a whole class that never even made it to school, all for the lack of something as basic as clean water.  On the bags in the front row were the names…

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WaterAid invites churches to choose water not chocolate this Lent to transform children’s lives

Stuart Mitchell

This Lent, WaterAid is inviting church congregations to give up their favourite treats and donate the money they save to WaterAid’s Jars of Change appeal, helping to bring the gift of clean water to children living in some of the world’s poorest communities. Congregation members who make the difficult decision to give up chocolate, coffee or other luxuries during the Lenten season are encouraged to put the money saved into a jar of change and then donate the money raised to WaterAid. The Jars of Change Lent appeal will help…

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