Carina Aloni is a long-term member and supporter of PICCA, passionate about helping to build better health, education, food security and a range of other opportunities in less advantaged communities. Carina is also a Yoga teacher who guides people along the pathway of Okido style Yoga.
On 23 October 2021, she brought these two parts of […]
Huong Tra’s students will return from school holidays to new hygienic wash stations. There has been rapid progress in our partnership project with Hearts for Hue and the new wash stations have already been constructed in all the 10 schools involved in the project.
With the start of the new school term, the focus of the […]
Clean water is as precious as life itself. Given PiCCA’s 2020 and 2021 projects are about water, sanitation and hygiene (or ‘WASH’), we have been thinking about the value of PiCCA’s investments to deliver benefits across all of PiCCA’s priority areas (see ‘About PiCCA’). For example, a toilet saves lives, preventing the spread of disease. It is also a […]
PiCCA has started a new project in partnership with Hearts for Hue, Vietnam.
The project involves the construction of 10 new hand washing stations in 10 Primary Schools in Huong Tra town. Train-the-trainer programs in hygiene and sanitation will also be delivered to teachers and other community leaders and training in practical hygiene matters subsequently rolled […]
Over the last 12 months PiCCA has been working together with Hearts for Hue (H4H) on a hygiene and sanitation project in Quang Nham, a mountainous area 75 km from Hue city. About 4,500 people live there with 97 percent from minority TaOi and Paco ethnic communities. Approximately half of all households are living in […]
Meet participants in our Promoting Hygiene and Sanitation in Quang Nham Commune project: Mrs. Le Thi Thua’s family who lives in Kleng A Bung village and Mr. Ho Van Thai’s family, a farmer from Pi Ây 2 village.
Together with other project participants, they participated in a training course on promoting sanitation and hygiene across their […]
PiCCA members have approved a new project providing for the fit-out of a childcare facility and community centre run by the Butterfly Foundation in Pokhara (Nepal) for the provision of services to vulnerable children and their families.
The project is being delivered together with the Nepal Australia Friendship Association with whom PiCCA worked […]
As part of our project “Promoting Hygiene and Sanitation in Quang Nham”, training is being rolled out across the village raising awareness of water supply, hygiene and sanitation issues as well matters to do with preventing the spread of Covid.
