A film for World Water Day…
Water ink _ BDDP Unlimited and Solidarités International - UK from BDDP Unlimited on Vimeo.
1,500 teenage girls now with sanitation
Our recently completed sanitation project in Vadalore Girls Secondary School has provided 1,500 teenage girls with much needed sanitation facilities. The girls will benefit hugely from increased privacy the units provide and hygiene training, improving their health and ensuring they can stay in school even during menstruation. This will enable ...
Sustainable farming can feed the world?
"The oldest and most common dig against organic agriculture is that it cannot feed the world’s citizens; this, however, is a supposition, not a fact. And industrial agriculture isn’t working perfectly, either: the global food price index is at a record high, and our agricultural system is wreaking havoc with ...
Battle over Mumbai’s slums
"Developers hope to raze the slums and make vast profits from commercial projects, but slum residents have other ideas. Ganesh Krupa Society is part of Golibar, Mumbai's second largest slum, spanning 140 acres. The site is at the centre of a fierce battle between its residents and a developer that wants ...
Over 14,000 manual scavengers rehabilitated
"The Orissa Government has claimed to have rehabilitated 14,077 persons involved in manual scavenging in the State. In a report recently submitted to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the State government mentioned that about 3,456 manual scavengers could not be rehabilitated due to their death and migration and many were ...
Other news...
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Urine fertilising crops and saving money
"Consider these facts about urine: Adults produce about four to eight cups (one to two liters) per day, it's a reservoir of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus, the same elements that ...
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Donor aversion to ‘unsexy’ water projects threatens development goal
"More than 1 billion people will not get the basic sanitation and the clean water promised as such projects shrink sharply as a proportion of global aid budgets. A key development ...
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Ecosan toilets for 2,000 people in Tamil Nadu
In November 2010, we held a large fundraising event in the UK which raised enough money for us to build individual ecosan (composting) toilets for 2,000 people in the village ...
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Fiona Bruce narrates our new film
Britain's well known BBC newsreader and presenter Fiona Bruce is the voice-over for our latest film, "Independence, not Dependence". The video gives an introduction to who we are, what we ...
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Cleaning Delhi through Facebook
"When 22-year-old Piyush Goyal posted his complaint of garbage spilling over from the dump in his area, on the Facebook page of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), little had ...
