One in three people around the world do not have access to safe drinking water. The majority of these live in rural areas with no realistic hope in the foreseeable future of access to distributed treated water systems. However cheaper, easy to use Household Water Treatment and Storage methods can provide interim solutions to the […]
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WASHTED in collaboration with University of Strathclyde, UK (Lead Partner), United Purpose and Community Energy Malawi is implementing a project aimed at increasing access to sustainable energy for rural communities in Dedza and Balaka Districts, thereby enabling economic development and improved livelihoods. The project begun in October 2018 and will run to March 2023 The
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When COVID-19 was discovered, school closure was among the first actions taken by authorities to prevent its spread. Despite previous reports indicating that children were not super-spreaders of COVID-19, the second wave of the pandemic showed to infect children. Thus, there was a need to protect the learners from contracting COVID-19 while in school. In
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Project brief: WASH endeavors regularly fail. Sometimes this means that entire programmes do not achieve their stated aims, sometimes these failures are setbacks which can be rectified with sufficient reflection and action. WASHTED partnered with the University of Western Australia; University of Leeds, UK and University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa among others in conducting research
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The growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is well recognised, with low and middle income (LMICs) countries more likely to be more severely affected due to overstretched health systems, existing Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) challenges and poor access to alternative antibiotic regime. WASHTED in collaboration with Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust (MLW) lead by Liverpool
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Energy in Malawi Malawi is a land locked, Sub-Saharan Africa country with a population of approximately 16 million. Only 9% of the population has access to the national grid electricity and access to the rural areas has remained stagnant to less than 1% for a long period of time. Comparatively, the sub-Saharan average is 16%
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The Sustainable Off-Grid Electrification of Rural Villages (SOGERV) Project was funded by the Scottish Government from 2015 – 2018. The project was led by the University of Strathclyde and partnered by United Purpose-Malawi and the Centre for Water, Sanitation, Health and Alternative Technology Development (WASHTED). SOGERV aimed to improve sustainable energy access to rural communities in Chikwawa District, Southern
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