Water and Sanitation Hygiene Project Objective:

To improve food security, and to contribute toward the achievment of Cambodia’s MDG1 (eradicate extreme poverty and hunger) and MDG7 (ensuring environmental sustainability). Specifically, to reduce the number of people suffering from water borne illnesses and improve the health of the rural poor in Pursat and Siem Reap provinces.

By 2015, with help from the WASH programme, at least 70% of target households have modified and improved their hygiene. Also, 90% of households in the target villages have year-round access to improved water sources.

Since the programme began in 2010, there were many successes. For example, HURREDO:

• Provided education about hygiene and sanitation to more than 1000 households in 16 villages
• Distributed 750 water filters and water jars in 10 villages in the Chansor Commune
• Installed 12 WASH information billboards in 12 villages
• Provided 150 latrines to 150 households in 10 villages
• Provided 75 rain harvesting tanks to 75 separate households
• Formed 10 Water and Sanitation User Groups involving 668 households in 10 villages
• WASH aims to continue the education in rural areas through the implementation of World Hand Washing Day and village cleaning campaigns. As well as the provision of futher information about the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene project to target beneficiaries by the installation of informational billboards. This will provide a platform from which the beneficiaries will be able to make informed choices regarding their health and sanitation.

The training provided to Water and Sanitation User Groups on solid and liquid waste facilities, pest control and food/body hygiene, ensured that when WASH has concluded in 2015, the villages and committees will have the adequate tools and information to create a ripple effect throughout other villages. This grant not only determines the short-term effect WASH will have on the target communitites, but the long-term and widespread knowledge about hygiene and sanitation in the rest of the country.