Wherever the Need

In our summer newsletter, we focused on the trip David (CEO) had just made to India. In this latest newsletter we explain a little more fully what we are doing in Africa based on Richard’s (Director of African Development) most recent visit. He managed to combine a trip to both Kenya and Sierra Leone and there are many contrasts between the two countries. Kenya is one of Africa’s powerhouses, while Sierra Leone is anything but. However, even in the relative prosperous Kenya the majority of people have an extremely difficult life, made all the more difficult by acute water shortages caused by increasing drought conditions. In contrast Sierra Leone, at least in the region in which we work, has abundant rainfall, but little or no infrastructure and a population that is among the poorest in the world.

However, regardless of the country the basis of our work is the same – using sanitation, water and livelihoods to help people out of poverty. It is the good health and income generation model that we employ successfully in every project.

Read the newsletter here (PDF 2.7mb)

India Cyclone -
Emergency Appeal

You may have heard on the news about the cyclone that recently devastated south-east India. Tamil Nadu, the region in which many of Wherever the Need’s projects are based, has been badly hit – the cyclone has devastated the lives of the people and communities with whom we work so closely.

Infrastructure, services and facilities are severely impaired and damaged; towns and villages are without electricity and clean water; many people have been left homeless.

Water supplies are polluted and there is a genuine concern that there will be an outbreak of diseases such as diarrhoea or cholera

We want to use our expertise and knowledge of the region to get sanitation and water facilities to where they are most needed and we need your help.

Please donate now. Please donate… Yes No Are you a UK taxpayer and can we claim gift aid? Would you like to receive our occasional newsletter?

£25

will pay for a water filter which will enable people on the ground to access clean, safe water

£500

will buy a mobile eco-sanitation unit, by-passing the need for infrastructure to provide much-needed toilet facilities

Following a recent visit to some of our projects in India, Hardeep Sandher writes of her experiences during her time there. Read the full Property Week article here” target=”_blank”> (PDF 2.1mb)

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