Thursday, August 16, 2012
By Lindsay Riddell, Reporter
San Francisco Business Times
By Lindsay Riddell, Reporter
San Francisco Business Times
The Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation has awarded a $10.9 million grant to Oakland-based East Meets West
Foundation to improve
sanitation and hygiene in rural Cambodia and Vietnam.
East Meets West, an
international development agency, will use the money to fund its
program, which includes sanitation and hygiene education, installing
toilets and hand washing devices in homes, and cash payments for use of
those facilities within a community.
The Foundation said 50 percent
of people living in rural Vietnam and 80 percent in rural Cambodia don’t have
access to sanitation facilities. Disease resulting from
the unsanitary disposal of human waste kills about 17,000 people a year —
most of those younger than five years old — in those two countries
every year.
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