What would it be like to have no toilet, no clean running water or safe place to wash?
This is the experience of millions of people around the globe, as Tearfund explains:
"We believe that breaking free from poverty is extremely difficult for communities if they are unable to access clean water, use safe sanitation services and practise healthy hygiene habits.
WASH approaches include:
building and rehabilitating facilities such as water points and community-based toilet blocks supporting the management and maintenance of water supply services, such as a handpump mechanics association and technical response groups using social and behaviour change approaches to promote healthy WASH behavioursThese approaches carefully consider sustainability and aim to minimise our impact on the environment. We prioritise the inclusion of diverse voices in WASH planning and provide contextual solutions that are both climate resilient and conflict- and gender-sensitive. Central to Tearfund’s WASH work is how the church can help facilitate these approaches.
The WASH resources explore how these approaches are adapted and implemented across the humanitarian-to-development spectrum".
Help us to love our global neighbours by leaving us your clean, crushed aluminium cans at St Helena's church, or any churches in our Benefice, and all the money raised will be sent to Tearfund in support of this essential work in bringing equity to those without safe hygiene facilities.
So far, we have raised £340!!!
THANK YOU!