Oasis

Spring - Summer 2002

Happy 21st birthday WaterAid!
Looking back at 21 years of WaterAid.

Taking stock
John Isherwood looks back at 21 years of WaterAid's work and forward to future challenges.

Starting out
WaterAid's program in Malawi started in 1999. Boyce Nyirenda explained to Sharon Brand-Self how work is being implemented in the Salima district.

A brighter future
Vicky Blagbrough explains why clean water, sanitation and hygiene promotion can help stop the largest cause of preventable blindness in the developing world, trachoma.

Lucy's story
Lucy Akanboguure from Ghana, tells the amazing story of how water has changed her life.

Campaign update
One of the aims of WaterAid's current campaign, Water Matters, is to ensure an international development target for sanitation is set. Sally Warren reports.

Pangs of freedom
In Nepal the Kamaiya system of bonded labor was abolished in 2000. Paras Thakuri reports on how WaterAid's partner NEWAH is providing water and sanitation to the freed Kamaiya people.

Home grown
Fruit and vegetables from kitchen gardens, grown using the run-off from water supplies can provide communities with food and income. By Tamsin Maunder.

Day in the life
Isaac Mbewe, Provisional Coordinator of WaterAid's program in Southern Province, Zambia.

Fundraising ideas
Buckets of Pennies for buckets of water, making a splash for WaterAid and Meadow Aromatherapy.

Money matters
Capital gains success, a legacy thank-you and how to celebrate WaterAid's 21st.

Ethical investors