The Financial Times Seasonal Appeal 

Read the latest features on the FT website:

-Blind Faith 

-Ancient tradition meets modern technology 

-Clean Water and hygiene classes help poor Bangladeshi women break taboos

-Sweet smell of success: combating disease in Mali

-Children harvest rainwater in struggle to beat drought   

-Water 'angels' bring hope to slum dwellers 

-WaterAid helps Nepalese quench thirst for change

-The silent emergency

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Welcome!Barbara Frost

In this section you can keep up to date with the latest reports from the Financial Times seasonal appeal in support of WaterAid and make a donation to support our vital work.

We are honoured and extremely excited about this opportunity to work with the Financial Times. The money raised through the appeal, and the awareness that the FT is raising, will do a huge amount to help us tackle the global sanitation and water crisis.

Thank you for your support.

Barbara Frost,Donate now
WaterAid Chief Executive

-Water crisis in Nepal video

-How toilets transformed a Bangladeshi village 

- WaterAid: an African soap story 

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Girls in Madagascar at a tap-stand

The issues

In this short audio slideshow, WaterAid's Girish Menon explains why the need for WaterAid's work is as great as ever... 

A still from the film 'Simple solutions'

Simple solutions

Our short film, Simple solutions, shows how our water, sanitation and hygiene projects are changing lives for millions...

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About WaterAid 

Water and sanitation statistics

  • 5,000 children die every day from water-related diseases - that's more than malaria, TB and HIV combined
  • 5.6 billion productive days are lost annually around the world due to diarrhoeal diseases
  • 443 million school days are lost annually worldwide due to diarrhoeal diseases
  • The UN Human Development Report estimates that a dollar invested in sanitation brings $9 return