After over a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all familiar with the need to clean our hands with soapy water after touching communal surfaces – be it door handles, handrails or the like. But what if you live somewhere without running water, like rural Sierra Leone? With limited access to healthcare, the potential… Read the full article >
What’s Cooking in Rwanda
Rwanda’s Akagera National Park is the largest protected wetland in Central Africa. It is home to rhinos, lions, and more recently, one of CO2balance’s latest projects. There are 400,000 people living in the periphery of the park, many of whom depend on the park’s activities for their livelihoods and amenities. Demand for firewood for cooking… Read the full article >
CO2balance moving into 2021
Climate change is affecting every country on every continent. 2019 was the second warmest year on record, with atmospheric concentrations of CO2 projected to continue rising. Factoring in the global COVID-19 pandemic, the UN’s SDGs slogan ‘Leave No One Behind’ is more relevant than ever. The COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest economic and social crisis… Read the full article >
2020: What a year for CO2b and Village Water partnership!
In collaboration with Village Water, we launched 2 new safe water projects in Mozambique and Zambia at the beginning of 2020. The projects were both quite ambitious: in Mozambique the plan was to repair 800 boreholes and in Zambia another batch of 200 by the end of 2020. We have done our best to reach… Read the full article >
COVID 19 – The Eye Opener
There are many people in the world who live in abject poverty, they struggle to get the very basic needs of life but even so none of these people no matter how poor they are can afford to live without water. Because water is life. Water is so essential for many needs i.e. drinking, sanitation,… Read the full article >
Lockdown emissions and the potential for a green recovery
Emission reductions caused by COVID-19 restrictions From early 2020, when lockdowns were enforced to slow the spread of COVID-19, the effects of reduced emissions were witnessed all over the world. News stories of reduced air pollution in China and clear waterways in Venice circulated the internet. One study found that during the peak of global… Read the full article >
Enabling Reading from home during Covid 19 in Kilifi County
Many households in the expansive Kilifi County in Kenya rely on untreated water from small earthen dams and seasonal rivers for daily domestic use. As you move into the remote villages the case is even worse, women and children have to travel an average of 5km every day in search for water. With the current… Read the full article >
United Purpose and CO2balance – preventing the spread of COVID-19 in The Gambia
Improving communities’ access to clean water during the COVID-19 emergency through the rehabilitation of boreholes. The global community is racing to slow down and eventually halt the spread of COVID-19, a pandemic that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and sickened 4.5 million people. In Africa, the virus has spread to dozens of countries… Read the full article >
Coronavirus in Africa
It is clear from the rapid increase in cases across Africa this last month that the virus now appears to be spreading away from capital cities across the continent. The WHO warn Africa will become the next epicentre for Coronavirus, with new modelling showing a quarter of a billion people being infected during the first… Read the full article >
Fighting COVID-19: Tippy Taps for handwashing in Mozambique and Zambia
Save Lives: Clean Your Hands’ is the theme of this year’s Global Hand Hygiene Day 2020. Celebrated every year on 5 May, Hand Hygiene Day mobilizes people around the world to increase adherence to hand hygiene: handwashing is one of the most effective actions you can take to reduce the spread of pathogens and prevent infections…. Read the full article >