The first thing you need for a decent education in the DRC? Clean water

Katie EdmondsonEducation, Private sector, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

In a country where too many girls still don’t get a basic education, textiles firm Romo has been working with Oxfam to provide support that goes well beyond textbooks or new classrooms. In a blog for International Youth Day, Katie Edmondson looks back on 17 years of an evolving partnership.

‘What is tea without water?’ How a tea firm came to invest in clean water in Niger

Katie EdmondsonPrivate sector, Water, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

On World Water Day, Oxfam’s Private Sector Partnership Manager Katie Edmondson looks back at a decade of partnership with Ahmad Tea, which has supported Oxfam to supply clean water to thousands of people and is training community members to manage new systems in one of the world’s most water-insecure countries.