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Feb 23, 2011
Overcoming taboo can be pretty tricky with teenage girls.
But given the facts—like frightening stats that convey the fear and harassment girls confront every day in schools without appropriate facilities, or the availability of simple solutions
Feb 18, 2011
End Water Poverty knows about the water and sanitation crisis that's killing 4000 children a day.
We know that it's a crisis affecting 2.6 billion people and threatening the development of many countries across Africa and South Asia. We also know
Feb 09, 2011
One of the simple pleasures of making field trips to rural Kenya are the meals served at road side restaurants.
These meals are fresh, fast and finger-licking good! Often served in modest (read inexpensive) road side eating houses, just enough
Feb 02, 2011
I typically wouldn't consider having to “go” a cause for celebration.
Jan 27, 2011
Haiti was the first country outside of North America I ever traveled to, in January 2001, to complete my Master's research on a filtration/chlorination household water treatment system.
I remember being shocked at the poverty, but not in an
Jan 25, 2011
End Water Poverty is really moving on as a campaign and last week's planning meeting marked a great step forward.
Campaigners from 14 countries came together to celebrate our successes, to assess the current situation and to plan the way forward
Jan 19, 2011
Years ago, while working in El Salvador, I learned the Latin American gesture for diarrhea - a quick brushing of one hand, fingers pursed, across the open palm the other, and then a dramatic splaying of the fingers.
More often than not, I saw this
Jan 11, 2011
On a recent trip to Kenya, I made my first trip to Kibera, the largest slum in Africa.Kibera is one of the more visible African slums - featured in the last decade in the movie the Constant Gardener and a recent book by Bill Bryson, with visits from
Jan 10, 2011
There is no single intervention that will improve global health faster than providing access to clean water, improved sanitation and hygiene education to literally 1/3 of the world's population.
The statistics are staggering. Nearly one billion
Jan 06, 2011
Southern Sudan holds a referendum on independence this Sunday, and the major media are filled with all manner of speculation about the outcome and its effects.
Will the vote be peaceful or violent? What is the prognosis for a new government in this
