by Michelle Anekeya | Sep 1, 2025 | News
For more than three decades, Joyce Wangui has sold sugar, cooking oil, and mobile phone airtime from a tin-roofed kiosk in the winding alleys of Mukuru Kwa Njenga, one of Nairobi’s most densely packed informal settlements. Her kiosk, weather-beaten but orderly, is the...
by Michelle Anekeya | Aug 11, 2025 | News
In the heart of Nampula, Mozambique’s third-largest city, the neighbourhood of Namicopo is on the brink of transformation. Home to nearly 74,000 people, this densely populated area is one of the most underserved communities in the city. Access to clean, piped water is...
by Michelle Anekeya | May 19, 2025 | News
On a sunlit morning at Escola Primária Unidade 7, shrieks of laughter echo across the courtyard as children line up—orderly, excited—to wash their hands before class. A row of brightly painted sinks glistens under a canopy of shade. Beside them stands a gleaming block...
by Michelle Anekeya | Mar 31, 2025 | News
To mark its 20th anniversary, Water and Sanitation for Urban Populations (WSUP) — formerly known as Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor — has launched an ambitious WSUP Strategic Plan 2025-2030 to help cities across Africa and Asia deliver climate-resilient,...
by Michelle Anekeya | Oct 10, 2024 | News
For Dona Cristina Fernando Mabasso, the construction of a simple bathroom in her home in Airport B, Block 8, house 35, in Beira, has been a life-changing event. A mother of four with three grandchildren under her care, Cristina’s family had long endured the...
