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Award-winning WaterAid film ‘Water is Coming’ showing the human side of the climate crisis to feature at the Big Syn International Film

Stuart Mitchell

WaterAid is delighted to announce its award-winning, intimate documentary portrait ‘Water is Coming’, has been selected to feature as part of this year’s Big Syn International Film Festival in London, the world’s biggest sustainability film festival.   ‘Water is Coming’ was directed and produced by Aśka Faron from WaterAid UK. In keeping with WaterAid’s pioneering approach to give communities control over how their stories are told, this film was produced in close collaboration with WaterAid Bangladesh and local filmmakers, as well as the Munda community of Bhetkhali, where they tell…

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Indira Varma, Adjoa Andoh, David Morrissey and Dougray Scott among stars supporting WaterAid campaign to new government

Stuart Mitchell

Actors Indira Varma, Adjoa Andoh, David Morrissey, Dougray Scott and Ariyon Bakare are among several celebrities backing WaterAid’s Vote Water campaign by adding their name to an open letter highlighting the global water and climate crisis and calling for urgent action.  Actors Sir Mark Rylance, Finbar Lynch, and Niamh Cusack, comedian Aisling Bea, and presenter Tyler West have also pledged their support for the not-for-profit’s campaign, which calls on the UK’s new Labour Government to prioritise investment in clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene in the international development budget.    …

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WaterAid and Currensea launch innovative debit card to help people get clean water with every tap

Stuart Mitchell

WaterAid has partnered with Currensea and Mastercard to launch a brand-new innovative debit card, helping people save money at home and abroad and donating those savings to help people get clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene. From rounding up your everyday purchases whether that be to the nearest 50p or £1, to saving bank fees abroad, the card will enable supporters to easily donate to WaterAid UK. It benefits users the most while travelling, saving at least 85% in bank fees on every foreign transaction compared to high street…

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New data reveals over 200 million children don’t have a toilet at school – leaving girls no way of managing their period

Stuart Mitchell

Over 400 million children globally lack decent toilets at school according to brand new data from the World Health Organisation and UNICEF ’s Joint Monitoring Programme – this means either toilets don’t work, girls and boys are forced to share facilities – even when girls are on their periods – or there’s no toilet at all. Meanwhile just over half of this number, 220 million, don’t have a toilet at school at all. In Sub Saharan Africa alone, 50% of schools have inadequate toilets.  This is having a huge and…

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Glastonbury Festival teams up with WaterAid and Hey Girls to ensure a bloody good time and period dignity for all

Stuart Mitchell

A new WaterAid survey has found that 4 in 5 (86%) respondents have planned their activities around their period, while over a third (37%) say they wouldn’t feel comfortable having their period at an outdoor event. This survey comes as the international charity teams up with Glastonbury Festival and period product social enterprise Hey Girls to help people manage their period with dignity at the festival and around the world. The survey of 2,000 people who are menstruating or have menstruated in the last year found that nearly half (49%)…

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