USAID - the lead US government agency that works to end extreme global poverty - is providing £80,000 for Å·ÃÀÐÔ°®Æ¬’s researchers to finalise laboratory validation of their unique low-cost sanitation method, trialled successfully in response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
And The Body Shop Foundation is providing £20,000 to create and launch a multi-lingual emergency sanitation manual for use by NGOs around the world.
Water and sanitation problems are the second biggest killer of children under five, worldwide. They are worse in times of crisis – such as the outbreak of Ebola and the recent earthquake in Nepal – and can lead to countless deaths from human waste-borne diseases.