How you can help
As one of the world's leading education and research institutes for developing knowledge and capacity in water and sanitation, we are often asked how our work can be supported.
Beyond working in partnership with other institutions, there are ways in which individuals, organizations and charitable trusts can contribute. This section of our website presents various options to ensure our expertise reaches those who need most help.
You can help to support:
If you would like to make a donation to help us to continue our vital work, please download the donation form or find out how to donate online.
Scholarships
Access to safe water and adequate sanitation are the most basic services essential to life. Through education, training and research, we have helped improve the well-being of both rural and urban communities in more than 65 countries worldwide.
Our learning opportunities are designed to equip policymakers, practitioners and community members with the essential skills necessary to improve the quality of life.
Our programmes are aimed at improving services in some of the poorest countries in the world and the scholarship fund provides financial support to enable students to benefit from our world-renowned courses.
The courses provide students with the expertise and knowledge to provide sustainable long-term solutions where it's needed most, and who simply could not afford to study without support.
There is the opportunity to study either at Loughborough University, for a one year period, or by distance learning in a student's own country. In addition, our programmes can be studied module by module, over a six month period, up to a complete Master of Science (MSc) programme consisting of nine modules. The support required for a student to study each module is £1,000.
"The modules I have completed are actually issues I face on a day-to-day basis. The course has improved my understanding and finding solutions is now much easier. Without funding I would not have considered starting the course as the costs would have prevented me. I really appreciate the funding."
Jovah Abasiimire Ndyabarema
Beneficiary
Research that matters
WEDC is a multi-disciplinary team of specialists who undertake research that matters driven by the need to develop feasible solutions to real problems.
To find the most appropriate, sustainable solutions, for the benefit of all, we need support to undertake vital research. This research ranges from specific case studies to multi-disciplinary challenges, which integrate social, health, technical, economic, financial and environmental factors.
"Having travelled extensively throughout the developing world, WEDC has been one of the leading forces in the water and sanitation sector development, particularly through its training. It is not unusual to meet a water engineer in the remotest part of the world and to discover that he or she is a WEDC graduate. Also, through research activities, dissemination of information and learning, and by being a centre of excellence, WEDC is a premier international resource that will continue to be drawn upon by many."
Dr Robert A. Boydell, UNDP-World Bank
Water and Sanitation Program, Washington
Examples of research range from the development of a new generation portable water testing kit; to a practical guide for healthy villages.
Support for a postgraduate student is an investment of £15,000 per year.
Knowledge to share
Our knowledge in water and sanitation has developed over 40 years. We house one of the world's largest collections of specialist resources related to water supply and sanitation in low- and middle-income countries. We have documented evidence based answers to important questions and share our world class knowledge through books, manuals and fact sheets.
To grow this collection, update it and ensure it reaches the communities where the demand is highest, we need support. For as little as £40 you could donate a book to a water and sanitation practitioner, in a low-income country or contribute towards the development of new technical notes. Our publication titles range from Sanitation for Primary Schools in Africa to Controlling and Preventing Disease and Emergency Water Sources: Guidelines for selection and treatment.
"WEDC publications are so practical and valuable. They have been so useful to me and the community I serve in Tanzania, in improving the water supply and sanitation."
"I am very grateful for all the free publications I have downloaded from your website. Being a humanitarian worker in a refugee camp I have immensely benefitted from the literature and am now able to face day-to-day challenges in my job. Thank you very much, and continue the excellent job."
