Putting Clean Hands Together

Working with UNICEF, the Alliance of Religions and Conservation and WASH in Schools Mapping website, Faith in Water has produced a new publication, Putting Clean Hands Together, on how to work more effectively with faith communities 
on water, sanitation and hygiene issues.

The document, which is sponsored by UNICEF,  makes the case for giving greater priority to working with faith schools. 

It offers helpful tips to both secular groups and faith groups on how to work more effectively with each other and looks at the role of water and cleanliness in five major faiths: Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Sikhism. 

It was launched at the Water and Health Conference hosted by the University of North Carolina in October 2015. Take a sneak peek at the document below or download a PDF copy for yourself.
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'Air is the Guru, Water the Father, and 
Earth is the Great Mother of all.'

– Guru Granth Sahib, pg 146 (Sikhism)



'Faith-based groups are effective partners because they have spent hundreds of years gathering knowledge and cultivating trust, and they uniquely affect people's behaviour.' 

– J Mark Brinkmoeller, Director, USAID Center 
for Faith-based and Community Initiatives



'Access to safe drinking water is a basic and universal human right, since it is essential to human survival... Our world has a grave social
debt towards the poor who lack access to
drinking water, because they are denied the
right to a life consistent with their inalienable dignity. This debt can be paid partly by an
increase in funding to provide clean water
​and sanitary services among the poor.'

– Pope Francis, Laudato Si' (Care of our
​Common Home), June 2015

Main image: Nairobi schoolchildren, by ARC