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Richard E. Grant Lends Legendary Voice To WaterAid’s Powerful Water Means Life Film

Stuart Mitchell

Oscar-nominated actor Richard E. Grant is supporting the Water Means Life appeal with WaterAid this winter, lending his distinctive voice to the international charity’s powerful appeal film. The Can You Ever Forgive Me? star, who is currently on tour promoting his heartfelt memoir A Pocketful of Happiness, highlighted the importance of WaterAid’s appeal in ensuring everyone is given the right to clean water.    The campaign aims to raise £2.5 million during its run from November 2022 to February 2023. Funds raised will provide life-saving clean water, decent toilets and…

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Ellie Simmonds launches WaterAid’s Water Means Life appeal to bring water and toilets to healthcare facilities  

Stuart Mitchell

British Paralympic swimmer and Strictly Come Dancing star Ellie Simmonds OBE has launched WaterAid’s new appeal, Water Means Life, aiming to bring life-changing access to clean water, decent toilets and hygiene facilities to healthcare centres in Mozambique and around the world. Through its appeal, WaterAid will help tackle the global hygiene crisis in healthcare centres across the world. Currently one in four healthcare centres have no clean water on site and almost half of health care centres have no basic handwashing facilities, putting staff and patients at a greater risk…

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Sir Tony Robinson and Amanda Mealing join line up at WaterAid’s Christmas Carol Concert at St Paul’s Cathedral

Stuart Mitchell

This year WaterAid is inviting everyone to soak up the magic of Christmas at a carol concert in the world-renowned St Paul’s Cathedral in London.   Held on Tuesday 6th December 2022, it is set to be an unmissable evening, featuring readings, poems, carols and performances.   Actor Sir Tony Robinson and actress Amanda Mealing will be doing readings and will be joined by the iconic Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral, the City of London Sinfonia Orchestra, one of the world’s leading orchestras. Singing will be brit award nominee and Opera Singer…

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HEINEKEN Africa Foundation and WaterAid renew partnership after reaching over 37 million people with Covid-19 response work

Stuart Mitchell

HEINEKEN Africa Foundation and WaterAid have announced a new €1.125 million partnership centered around pandemic preparedness, focusing on handwashing facilities in five countries, as an important line of defence against the spread of disease and future pandemics.  The partnership follows the organisations’ joint COVID-19 response programme, which reached more than 37 million people across Nigeria, South Africa, Rwanda, Mozambique and Ethiopia.  Since 2020 the Foundation has donated €2.8 million to the international charity, supporting its emergency response work to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in vulnerable communities in sub-Saharan…

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WaterAid Launches Advocacy Program To Deliver Sustainable Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Services to African Healthcare Facilities

Stuart Mitchell

WaterAid has announced the launch of a one-year program to advocate and inform policy change for improved access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene services (WASH) in healthcare facilities in Africa through a grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. The $1.49 million grant focuses on Ethiopia, Ghana and Uganda and addresses challenges preventing frontline healthcare workers, patients and surrounding communities from accessing clean water, handwashing facilities and decent toilets that lead to unsafe working conditions, increased disease spread and greater health risk for mothers and newborns. The result will…

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