April 18th, 2014
Maybe there are signs of progress in improving eye health in Australia? To see some progress in the reduction of trachoma in Australia, read the article (shown below) from the Australian…
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April 17th, 2014
Read the article from the West Australian, and thanks to an EXCLUSIVE by CATHY O’LEARY MEDICAL EDITOR The West Australian April 16, 2014, Leading health researcher Fiona Stanley has warned…
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April 9th, 2014
This has been the case with the toilet and water point maintenance assessment system being developed by WASSUP (Sth Africa) and some very talented architecture students in Australia. The need…
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April 8th, 2014
What we see in reading about the Anganwadi Project are many of the principles at work in Housing for Health. We hope you enjoy reading about the project and the exciting…
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April 3rd, 2014
Whether in Australia, Nepal, Bangladesh or South Africa, Healthabitat needs little convincing about how the work of plumbers contributes to improving health. So it is a great leap forward to…
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April 2nd, 2014
Since the launch in early October 2013, Housing for Health: The Guide, the number of people visiting the site has grown and the spread has broadened from Australia to an…
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March 31st, 2014
Following the Nepal Sanitation Studio 2014, exciting works have been continued by the local team. There are many different works being completed concurrently in 3 villages. In the first village…
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March 28th, 2014
Reflections on the TED X talk ‘Housing for Health’ a year on reveal some interesting results. It would be easy to see the whole TED circus as a self promoting…
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March 26th, 2014
After 2 weeks of intensive work by the local WASSUP team and two WorldSkill plumbers, the immediate results of the small works completed on 10 toilet and water points are…
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March 16th, 2014
When Yami Lester was the Chairman of Nganampa Health Council in the mid 1980s he summed up the environmental health review work of UPK as “water in, shit out”. The…
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March 12th, 2014
When working in any poor community, when things fail the people who live there are inevitably blamed with ignorance or vandalism. . . . . When the WASSUP team, assisted…
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March 12th, 2014
In 1985 after a few months of the first UPK work (that has led to the Housing for Health program), central Australian health service director Yami Lester noted the work…
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