A drive for Angela

Overview

WaterAid believes that water, sanitation, and hygiene are the essential foundations to all other forms of development and are vital for poverty reduction. They not only improve health and save time and energy, but also improve people's income, education, and social and cultural well-being. These initiatives also act as a catalyst for communities to carry out further development work themselves, enabling them to take the next steps towards better futures.

Mission

WaterAid's mission is to be the leading independent organization working with the world's poorest communities to deliver--and to champion--safe water, sanitation, and hygiene education working towards our vision of a world where everyone has access to safe water and sanitation.

Programs

WaterAid works in four ways:

Implement: We catalyze and deliver practical solutions – safe water, sanitation, and hygiene education – delivering basic human rights and tangibly impacting people’s lives.

Share: We serve as a resource sharing viable practices and models based on our learning from communities themselves.

Partner: We foster and promote partnerships across all of our work: at local levels to support sustainable institutions and international levels to catalyze commitment to water and sanitation.

Advocate: We identify, advocate, and advance policy solutions which will deliver maximum benefits to communities in the provision of safe water and sanitation.

WaterAid abides by the principles of integrating water, sanitation and hygiene education into all projects to achieve the greatest benefit for a community; empowering local communities with practical and organizational skills needed to build and maintain their own water and sanitation facilities; focusing on the poorest and most vunerable, particularly women and children; evaluating, Improving, and Sharing knowledge to ensure the highest standards in project design and implementation; and concentrating on sustainable projects using appropriate, simple technology which communities can maintain and repair.