Tag: wateraid

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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Without Regional Climate Weeks, COP conferences are not fit for purpose, warns WaterAid

Stuart Mitchell

If the world’s most vulnerable are not at the table, then UN climate talks are no longer fit for purpose, warns WaterAid.  Rrecently, the UNFCCC confirmed that this year’s Regional Climate Weeks will be cancelled until further notice, which WaterAid has criticised as ‘hugely disappointing’.  Regional Climate Weeks are a vital opportunity to bring a stronger regional voice to the international table in the lead up to COPs – those who are footing the bill on a crisis they have done the least to cause. Last year we saw four…

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Milestone Moment: Belu Water’s Contributions to WaterAid Surpass £5.8 Million

Stuart Mitchell

Belu, the social enterprise drinks company renowned for giving 100% of its net profits to WaterAid, reaffirms its commitment to transforming lives by announcing a further £368,038 donation to the charity in 2024. This contribution marks a significant milestone, bringing Belu’s total charitable contribution since 2011 to £5.8 million, impacting approximately 391,944 lives.  It is also an important trading milestone for Belu, the company is celebrating its best revenue year to date. Company accounts, filed on World Water Day Friday 22 March, report a turnover £8,747,327 in 2023 (2022: £7,086,640).…

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