Wash 1

Question 1

What are the points that WASH stands for in Tearfunds work?

Answer 1

Water, Advocacy, Sanitation and Hygiene

Question 2

Besides soap what else works to wash hands?

Answer 2

Ash

Question 3

How has WASH changed the lives of Doreen and Jouvllet?

Answer 3

Safety from attack, falling off the mountain, more time for education or being able to help with crops.

Question 4

How many children die daily from diseases linked to dirty water and unsafe toilets?

Answer 4

900 per day (Source: Toilet Twinning)

Question 5

How much does it cost to twin a toilet?

Answer 5

£60

Question 6

What is the 3rd largest killer of children under the age of 5 in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Answer 6

Diarrhoea

Question 7

How many people don’t have somewhere safe to go to the toilet?

Answer 7

2.4 billion

Question 8

Globally, how many school days do children miss due to dirty water and poor sanitation?

Answer 8

443 million

Question 9

Every year, how many hours do women and girls spend looking for someone to go to the toilet?

Answer 9

97 billion hours

Question 10

How many people lack access to clean safe drinking water?

Answer 10

663,000,000

Question 11

In how many countries, do less than half the population have a proper toilet?

Answer 11

47 Countries

Question 12

How many toilets has Toilet Twinning provided between 2011 & 2016?

Answer 12

64,167

Question 13

What is CLTS?

Answer 13

Community-Led Total Sanitation

Question 14

What are the key points of CLTS?

Answer 14

Introducing the idea to facilitators, prompting the community, including everyone and working with the government.

Question 15

How many people still drink water from unprotected sources?

Answer 15

1 in 10

Question 16

What are the aims of The Kigezi Diocese Water and Sanitation Programme?

Answer 16

• To improve the health of the community (specifically decrease incidences of water-borne diseases)
• Reduce the time taken to collect water,
• And as a result provide more time for community members to work or to attend school.

Question 17

For communities surrounding Lake Malawi what are the wash related issues that they could experience?

Answer 17

Flooding can cause latrines to collapse.

Question 18

How much of a percentage increase have the communities of Karonga and Salima seen in
access to clean and safe water from a borehole?

Answer 18

15% increase.

78% - 93%

Question 19

Tearfund currently runs 104 children’s clubs in the Leogane area in Haiti, that has an average attendance of 5060 children twice weekly. What does Tearfund at the children’s club?

Answer 19

The clubs offer psycho-social support through various recreational activities, as well as useful information on disaster risk reduction, hurricanes and earthquakes, and hygiene promotion.