Speaking at the 2015 CCIH Annual Conference, Janet Strike Ausel, Water and Sanitation Advisor for Samaritan's Purse explores programs to bring safe water and sanitation and menstrual hygiene management to low-resource settings in developing nations to improve dignity and health.

1. Water, Sanitation and Menstrual Hygiene to Bring
Dignity and Equity
Janet S. Ausel, PE

2. • Water:
• 748 million people do not have access to improved water
supplies.
• Sanitation
• More than 37% of the world’s population or 2.5 billion
people do not have access to improved sanitation.
• 15% of the population or 1.1 billion people still practice
open defecation
• Hygiene
• Studies vary but hand washing with soap can reduce the
risk of diarrheal disease by 30%- 50%

5. A nearby safe source of water means less:
• GBV: sexual violence or harassment
• More time for women: Time for microbusiness
• More time for girls: School attendance or studying
• And of course better health which also means more time
and available resources for school, microbusiness, etc.

6. A nearby safe latrine means:
•Less risk of sexual violence or
harassment over defecating in
the open
•More privacy and therefore
dignity
•And of course better health
which also means more time
and available resources for
school, microbusiness, etc.

7. What’s been around since
Adam and Eve, impacts
nearly half the population,
has a major impact on
health and dignity, but no
one is willing to talk
about?
(Background Photo: http://unibathlibrary.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/quiet-study-extended-during-revisionexam-weeks/)

10. (Background Photo: Nana Ackatia-Armah)
(Booklet Cover Photo: Abdul Gugu)

11. Hygienically?
With privacy?
In safety?
With dignity?

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