Our work

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene

Safe water, sanitation and hygiene, especially after floods and displacement.

SDG 6

Overview

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene at PEI

Clean water and good hygiene prevent the diarrhoeal diseases that kill children after every disaster. PEI installs water points, trains communities to maintain them, and runs hygiene campaigns in schools and camps.

Hand pumps and safe drinking water
Water user committees
Hygiene promotion
Cholera and emergency health kits

Support this work 6 projects

208,000

people with safe water

35%

fewer diarrhoea cases

25%

lower infant mortality

Projects

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene projects

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene2010

WASH Program after the 2010 Floods

Peshawar, Nowshera and Charsadda

Hand pumps and trained water user committees brought safe water back to flood-hit communities.

208,000people with safe water

35%fewer diarrhoea cases

25%lower infant mortality

Project details

75 hand pumps in 10 Union Councils
75 water user committees trained to maintain the pumps
25% lower infant mortality and 25% lower maternal mortality in supported communities

Sponsor / partner: HOPE International Development Agency
Provinces: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Water, Sanitation & HygieneAug 2012 – Sept 2014

Community Health Program for Children

Government schools, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Hygiene awareness campaigns in government schools, with shoes distributed to children in need.

Project details

Sponsor / partner: TOMS Shoes
Value: PKR 68.90 million
Provinces: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Water, Sanitation & HygieneSep – Nov 2010

Health and Hygiene Promotion after Floods

Rajanpur, Dadu and D.I. Khan

Hygiene and safe-water education through community-based organisations.

68,400people educated

Project details

Community-based organisations formed and trained
Behaviour-change materials on hygiene kits and water-borne disease

Sponsor / partner: HOPE International Development Agency
Value: PKR 8.5 million
Provinces: Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Water, Sanitation & HygieneAug – Sep 2010

Emergency Health and Cholera Kits

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Cholera treatment and emergency health kits for DHQ Nowshera and DHQ Swat after the floods, with ORT training for health workers.

400cholera cases treated

Project details

IV fluids for 100 severe adult cholera cases
Antibiotics for 65 adults and 60 children
400 mild or moderate cases treated in oral rehydration units

Sponsor / partner: HOPE International Development Agency
Value: PKR 117.75 million
Provinces: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene2009

WASH for Swat Displaced Families

Camps in Mardan, Buner and ex-FATA

Safe drinking water and temporary latrines in camps for families displaced from Swat.

Project details

Sponsor / partner: HOPE International Development Agency
Provinces: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Merged districts (ex-FATA)

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene2005

2005 Earthquake WASH Response

Mansehra and Batagram

Safe drinking water and hygiene kits for earthquake-affected families.

Project details

Sponsor / partner: HOPE International Development Agency
Provinces: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Related work

All areas

Health

Upgrading public hospitals, training health workers and getting medicines to the people who need them most.

SDG 3

Nutrition

Treating acute malnutrition in children and helping families prevent stunting at home.

SDG 2SDG 3

Tech-Based Innovation

Mobile health, digital referral and data systems that connect village health workers to specialists.

SDG 3SDG 9

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