As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten our global community, work to bring clean water, decent sanitation and good hygiene to everyone, everywhere has never been more critical. Thanks to our supporters and partners across the world, we're using our 40 years of experience to increase access to these vital needs for the most vulnerable people.
We're working across 28 countries to share the crucial hygiene messages we must all follow to keep each other safe from coronavirus, and to provide lasting access to water, sanitation and hygiene essentials, so people can defend against and build resilience to COVID-19 and other contagious diseases.
As the pandemic continues to escalate, we need to do even more right now in countries with already fragile health systems, to protect as many of those most at risk as possible and prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.
Will you support our response and help people who urgently need clean water, decent sanitation and good hygiene?
Useful links
Read FAQs answered by our hygiene experts
Read our latest blogs on COVID-19
Explore our hygiene resources and activities for kids
Visit the COVID-19 Hygiene Hub for practitioners' information sharing, led by our partners LSHTM
See coronavirus updates from WHO
See the latest COVID-19 statistics from Johns Hopkins University
What we're doing
- We’re protecting the most vulnerable people by installing handwashing facilities and ensuring access to essentials like soap, water, hand sanitiser and disinfectant in healthcare centres, densely populated places and rural areas.
- We’re promoting best practices for protecting against coronavirus through mass public hygiene behaviour change campaigns, reaching more than 99 million people so far.
- We’re helping water, sanitation and hygiene service providers to ensure no one loses access during the pandemic.
- We’re supporting governments in coordination of COVID-19 responses, and to identify the groups most at risk.
- We’re building long-term resilience to pandemics by strengthening the systems that ensure lasting, inclusive services.
- We're campaigning for governments and donors to prioritise and fund getting services to everyone, especially the most vulnerable.
Find out more about our phased programmatic response.
Read our regular situation reports, summarising our teams' work across the world up to August 2020.
Tune into a special interactive radio report hosted by Beatrice Phiri: meet Chris and Patricia, two everyday heroes championing good hygiene in their communities to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Use the interactive map to see some highlights of our COVID-19 response around the world:
Our response across the world
Read our latest COVID-19 blogs
Hear from our practitioners
How can we bring equality and inclusion principles, human rights, global finance, and sustainable water services together to reach everyone, everywhere with life-saving water and hygiene?
