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Winners of Sanitation Marketing Campaign Contest Announced Lien Aid and partner organization World Toilet Organization recently announced the winners of the Let's Increase Toilet Contest. The aim was to gather culturally appropriate messages for use in rural sanitation marketing campaigns in order to promote private investment in household toilets. Submissions included creative marketing strategies, TV/radio commercial scripts and illustrations. The winning entry by Mr. Veng Meng Keang is a storyline for a commercial, giving an account of a man who becomes embarrassed when a young lady visitor has to venture into the forest to urinate because his home does not have a toilet. Celebration of Global Handwashing Day in Vietnam At an event aimed at raising awareness and creating national momentum to spur behaviour change, 2000 students set a record for the most number of people washing hands at the same place at the same time in Hadong Stadium, Hanoi. In support of this event, Lien Aid, together with students from Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore produced promotional materials on the importance of proper handwashing practice. According to research, turning handwashing with soap at critical times into a habit can reduce deaths from diarrheal diseases by almost half. In the long term, "Global Handwashing Day" can become a powerful platform for advocacy aimed at policy makers and an occasion for concrete public commitment to actions that will help establish a lifelong healthy habit.
Lien Aid works with the Water Sanitation Program (WSP) to raise awareness of water and sanitation in Cambodia through a nationwide video broadcast The initiatives which strive to eliminate open defecation in Cambodia are reinforced by the release of a special awareness video which will be distributed throughout the country with the support of the World Bank. To watch the video, please go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQjiGSzMCbw |
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THE DEMON IN THE WATER - Photo and art exhibition to raise awareness on water sanitation woes A photo exhibition showcasing the works of Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s Film & Media Studies (FMS) students while on a reporting trip to Cambodia, will raise awareness of the water sanitation problems that developing countries face. Titled ‘The Demon in the Water’, the exhibition will be held from 27th of November to 3rd December 2008, at Vivocity’s South Avenue. 14 photographs portraying the problems of water sanitation in Cambodia will be showcased at the exhibition, sponsored by Nikon Singapore. The reporting trip, organised in early September as part of Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s collaboration with Lien Aid, a local non-governmental organisation, saw 6 FMS students travel to three locations in Cambodia to document the lives of the locals. Focusing on arsenic poisoning, poor water sanitation and open defecation, the photographs will bring across the message of how others lead their lives in other parts of the world, and how solutions are being come up with to help them. This is the official International Year of Sanitation. As such, the World Toilet Organisation will also be displaying pieces of toilet seat art by the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Students and Lasalle College of the Arts. Admission to the exhibition is free. |
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In conjuction with the World Toilet Day, Lien Aid unveiled a range of floating toilet designs which will be marketed to the river communities on the Tonle Sap. The first-of-its-kind initiative is unique as there is so far no recognised sanitation solution for the floating population on the great lake and instead of a standard hand-out approach, the communities are provided with real choices. Over in Kampong Speu, a similar project on land has been launched under USAID's Global Development Alliance programme. |
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Chief Executive Officer of Lien Aid, Sahari Ani, will be conducting a presentation, entitled “Looking at the Bigger Picture – A Different Take on Aid” at the 8th annual World Toilet Summit and Expo in Macau. His presentation maps out Lien Aid’s approach to development, specifically in the area of water and sanitation, by using its experience in Cambodia as an example. Lien Aid will also have a booth at the expo, held at the Venetian from 4 – 6 Nov, to showcase its work. This is a joint initiative with our Cambodian counterparts from the Ministry of Rural Development – Cambodia and serves to highlight the partnership between an NGO and the government sector in creating solutions to the water and sanitation crisis.
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Following their 10-day trip in September to visit Lien Aid’s projects in Cambodia, a group of six students from the Ngee Ann Polytechnic have completed “The Demon in the Water” – a booklet containing photo essays on the impact that poor water and sanitation has on the lives of the poor in Cambodia. Three poignant films in the attached DVD capture the personal stories of three Cambodians and how the water and sanitation crisis has affected their lives. A photo exhibition of the students’ works will be held at Vivo City from 27 Nov – 3 Dec. The joint initiative between Lien Aid and Ngee Ann Polytechnic was funded by the Lien Foundation-Ngee Ann Polytechnic SEED Fund.
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The Singapore consortium comprising the Singapore Water Association, Borouge Pte Ltd and Lien Aid signed an MOU with the local government in Sichuan on the provision of safe water supply to quake victims in Beichuan County. Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Mr Lim Swee Say, witnessed the signing of the MOU at the close of the 11th annual meeting of the Singapore-Sichuan Trade and Investment Committee (SSTIC).
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Lien Aid, Singapore Water Association and Borouge sign MOU to provide safe drinking water to Sichuan earthquake survivors The “A Drop of Hope” project, jointly implemented by Lien Aid, Singapore Water Association (SWA), and Borouge Pte Ltd in Beichuan County, Sichuan will be deploying a mobile water purification system to a resettlement camp, ensuring safe drinking water to 10,000 survivors using reverse osmosis and ultra filtration membrane technology.
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Lien Aid secures USAID funding, partners University of North Carolina to jointly implement WaterSHED: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Enterprise Development Under the USAID Global Development Alliance (GDA) Programme, Lien Aid has received funding to launch a water, sanitation and hygiene programme in Cambodia. The WaterSHED programme will take the community led total sanitation model one step further by introducing a holistic solution incorporating both water and sanitation components. Affordable watsan products will be developed together with private partners and priced reasonably to ensure financial sustainability, while social marketing will be used to stimulate demand for these products and improve hygiene practices. Initiated by the University of North Carolina, the GDA will be funded by the USAID. |
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News reports in the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake indicate that shoddy construction resulted in many schools becoming death traps for young children. Lien Aid is contributing to the reconstruction efforts by working with Lien Institute for the Environment (LIFE) and Sichuan provincial government to reinforce seismic resistance of two schools in Mianyang City. This technology can be deployed much faster and is 80% cheaper than the cost of rebuilding. These schools will also be equipped with water and sanitation facilities in order to enhance the health and wellbeing of the students. |
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Reconstruction work begins in Myanmar Three months after Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar, humanitarian efforts are now focused on longer term reconstruction needs. To provide a permanent source of safe drinking water and reduce incidence of water borne diseases among high risk communities in Myanmar, Lien Aid is partnering the international non government organisation, Population Services International, to build wells and provide water treatment and storage facilities to 10 townships in the badly hit Irrawaddy Delta. |
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