Margareta Arasio is a champion of good sanitation practices and hygiene in her community: and she is passionate about it. After learning about community-led total sanitation through the AHP response in Kenya, and seeing the difference it has made to child health, she is encouraging other villages to get on board.

In PNG, Disaster READY partners are helping communities to think differently about crop harvesting and storing, by exploring techniques that mean food is available through the leaner months.

Before Disaster READY partners built a water tank close to her village, Margarida and others from her community would walk two hours each day to collect water.

“Before the Savings and Loans program started in our village, I had to carry water from the river in buckets to irrigate the crops in my backyard. It was incredibly difficult because I lacked a practical way to access water.” Learn how World Vision in Timor-Leste has used special funding to combat the impacts of El Nino.

Breastfeeding corners at health clinics and courses on child and infant nutrition are empowering mothers like Asli to enhance their children's health, despite the ongoing impacts of drought in Ethiopia.

Families impacted by drought in Ethiopia are receiving multi-purpose cash grants as part of an integrated livelihood response from Save the Children, supported by the Australian Humanitarian Partnership.

Maryam, Zahra and their families are among hundreds of thousands of people in Ethiopia who have been forced to flee their homes because of conflict, drought and a lack of food. The AHP response is supporting emergency food rations.

When Kiribati entered into a drought emergency in 2022, the Australian Humanitarian Partnership was activated. Now, solar water distillation units are improving child and community health in the capital, and on remote islands.

Kenya is experiencing its worst drought in more than 40 years. With support through the Australian Humanitarian Partnership (AHP), Oxfam has been able to deliver multi-purpose cash transfers and drought-resilient crops, including sorghum, to some of the hardest hit communities.

With the support of Disaster READY partners in Timor-Leste, farmers like Elda have learned techniques to weather the country’s long dry seasons to improve their food security and livelihood.

Timor-Leste is prone to severe droughts, posing health, food security and livelihood risks to much of the population. AHP’s Timor-Leste Disaster READY program works with communities, government and other relevant stakeholders to prepare for drought.