Wednesday 27 October 2010
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Saturday 23 October 2010
Sanitation - www.wateraid.or.uk
Diarrhoea claims the lives of 4,000 children a day. These children are dying because they do not have access to adequate sanitation or safe water. Their deaths, from common diseases, are preventable.
Where there is nowhere safe and clean to go to the toilet, people are exposed to disease, lack of privacy, and indignity.
Bad health caused by poor sanitation has a knock-on effect on the family economy and nutrition.
In many cultures women who have no access to a latrine must wait until it is dark to go to the toilet or have to walk long distances to find an isolated spot. Where there are no toilets girls are prevented from going to school.
"This slum has existed for 10 years and is in a shocking state," explains Ruby from Balar Math Slum, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Water - www.wateraid.org.uk
Many women and children in rural areas in developing countries spend hours each day walking kilometres to collect water from unprotected sources such as open wells, muddy dugouts or streams.
In urban areas they collect it from polluted waterways or pay high prices to buy it from vendors who obtain it from dubious sources. The water is often dirty and unsafe, but they have no alternative.
Carrying the heavy water containers back home is an exhausting task, which takes up valuable time and energy. It often prevents women from doing vital domestic or income generating work and stops children from going to school.
Diarrhoeal diseases caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation, such as cholera, typhoid and dysentery, are common across the developing world - killing 4,000 children every single day.
People suffering from these diseases or caring for children who are ill from them are often unable to work to earn money, yet face large medical bills.
There is an urgent need for action, but all too often water and sanitation are overlooked in global development agenda, despite being consistently cited as top priorities by communities themselves.
Total global investments in water and sanitation would need to double for the Millennium Development Goal targets of halving the proportions of people living without water and sanitation by 2015 to be met.
Tuesday 19 October 2010
Tuesday 5 October 2010
Egg Cups
An egg cup, sometimes called egg server, is a container used for serving boiled eggs within their shell. Egg cups have an upwardly concave portion to hold the egg and often include a base to raise the egg retaining portion and give stability, informally known as footies.
Novelty egg cups are often sold around the world and a lot of people collect them. I intent to design a novelty egg cup.
Novelty egg cups are often sold around the world and a lot of people collect them. I intent to design a novelty egg cup.
Sunday 3 October 2010
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