Marpu Doe, 67, told Pump Aid that before she had an Elephant Toilet installed near her household, her and her grandchildren “used to dig small holes around my house to ease ourselves and cover them after. Those were difficult and dangerous times for our health.” Marpu explained the impact that access to an Elephant Toilet has made; “I now [...]
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Across Africa, families and villages continue to be without the most basic sanitation or have access to clean water. In Liberia, a country still recovering from some of the most horrific civil war violence seen in the last century, Pump Aid is employing former child soldiers such as Cynthia Brown to work in consultation with [...]
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World Toilet Day, 19th November, as it was declared by the World Toilet Organisation, is a day used to highlight the 2.5 billion people who are living without a toilet. Pump Aid and campaigners across the globe have used this day to bring the issue of poor sanitation in developing counties onto peoples agenda’s, and [...]
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‘Basketball Bonanza’, ‘Name the Pig’ and ‘Ping-pong Pandemonium’ are just some of the many competitions that helped students from Tettenhall College, Wolverhampton raise £500 towards Pump Aid’s work this year. Lower School students held a cake and sweet sale alongside these competitions whilst the Tettenhall Upper School students held a non-uniform day. A presentation on [...]
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