Multiple Needs Met in Namauni
The village of Namauni, located in Tanzania, was able to build a teachers house at the school with the coming of the deep-capped water well. The school and teacher’s buildings were constructed with small clay bricks, but there were no water sources anywhere near the school, which made construction difficult and costly. With the well […]
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More Than Just Clean Water
The village of Rweje in Tanzania had the most number of buckets and jerry cans lined up at a water well that our Water for LIfe Initiative team had ever seen. In fact, they lost count after 200! It turns out that four villages were getting clean water from this one well. Because there were so many […]
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No Escape
“I want her safe”, said Pari’s mother when she came to Mukti to leave her daughter. “I can not escape my lifestyle and work but I want Pari to have a choice,” her mother said determinedly as she made the decision to leave Pari at Mukti. Pari was living in Northern India with her mother and father. […]
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Syria: UN Human Rights Advisers Alarmed at Rise of Incitement to Religious Violence
13 October 2015 – Senior United Nations human rights officials today expressed their alarm at the rise in violent rhetoric by influential religious leaders – including calls for “holy war” against certain faiths – in relation to the situation in Syria. The UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, and Special […]
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‘Simple act of playing represents grave danger for children in Syria’ – UNICEF
16 September 2015 – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has condemned in the strongest terms mortar attacks on civilian areas of Aleppo, Syria, which reportedly killed at least 19 children yesterday, including six in a UNICEF-supported child friendly space. “Child friendly spaces enable children to play and reconnect with their childhood, and forget, even […]
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Millions of children in Syria deprived of education, says UNICEF
15 September 2015 – As children around the world return to school, there are more than two million in Syria who will not be able to join them, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) cautioned today, adding that another 400,000 are at risk of dropping out of school as a direct result of conflict, violence […]
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UN Official appeals to security council to find political solution to end nightmare for Syrians
16 September 2015 – The United Nations humanitarian chief today urged the Security Council to find a political solution to end the conflict in Syria, warning its members that the fighting had created one of the largest refugee exoduses since the Second World War. “It is civilians who continue to bear the brunt of this […]
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For those who remain in Syria, daily life is a nightmare
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Every morning, at the dawn call to prayer, women and children move silently from the Damascus suburb of Douma to the surrounding farm fields, seeking safety from the day’s bombardments by the Syrian government. The walk is part of a surreal routine described by the fraction of Douma’s residents who remain: shopping […]
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UNICEF demands that water not be used to achieve military and political gains in Syria
26 August 2015 – Amid the unremitting brutality of the war in Syria and a scorching summer heat wave, there is increasing evidence that parties to the conflict are using water to achieve military and political gains, warned the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). “Clean water is both a basic need and a fundamental right, […]
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3 reasons to help provide clean water
Hawa Guyo of Melbena, Ethiopia is a mother who always carried two children (one in the front and one on her back) as she walked walk eight hours a day to fetch water. Upon arrival…the water was extremely dirty. People and animals used it at the same time. The donkeys and other animals urinated in […]
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