{"id":27,"date":"2025-09-29T09:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sahei.info\/wordpress\/?p=27"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:44:36","slug":"wash-myths-vs-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahei.info\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/wash-myths-vs-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"WASH Myths vs Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/sahei.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sahei.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1.png 940w, https:\/\/sahei.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/sahei.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-768x644.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SAHEI Gender Development Initiative is a Nigerian non-profit organization founded in 2014, dedicated to empowering vulnerable people\u2014such as internally displaced persons, women, children, widows, and people with disabilities\u2014like improving access to clean water, sanitation, protection, livelihoods, and health across Northeast Nigeria.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 &#8220;Working with partners like UNHCR, NHF, NADA, LINDII, ACTION AID IGERIA, GLOBAL FUND, MWAN- BORNO CHAPTER, WFP, CLUB 17 AFRICA, GOVERNMENT OF <a><\/a>BORNO AND YOBE STATE, UNFPA, FREEFROM, GWA and ZOA. 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