{"id":11,"date":"2026-06-16T17:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wash\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-06-17T12:08:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:08:51","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/washitrustmw.org\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWASH INTERNATIONAL TRUST (WASHI), (TR\/INC:7689) was registered in 2019 as a charity in Malawi. It is founded on the principle \u201cDon\u2019t Destroy the World, Preserve It: Genesis 2:15\u201d and is working towards the global agenda of ending WASH poverty in Africa, building the resilience of communities and strengthening their self-supporting capacities.\n\nWASHI seeks to improve community access to clean, safe drinking water and provide climate-smart irrigation technologies to economically empower women and youths in vulnerable communities. The demand for WASH and resilience building in rural communities is real. WASHI is a practical voice at the family level in strengthening the delivery of WASH services as a safety net against climatic shocks.\n\nThe Trust\u2019s MaTech technologies can be easily maintained by local communities without any outside technical assistance using locally available materials and Geospatial information and Digital mapping in its programming to enhance decision making. The Trust will establish a WASH and Climate Change technologies innovation centre for the youth to showcase their creativity in developing low-cost, adaptive and easy to maintain technologies for peri-urban and rural Africa.\n\nBenefit-Cost Analysis (BCA) is a constant throughout for such innovative interventions that will allow tens of thousands of families to be served with low cost and high impact WASH and Climate Smart Technologies whose return on investment can be easily measured. The WASHTECH innovations will continually be rigorously tested, documenting evidence to measure effectiveness and disseminate information for feedback and learning.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTo increase WASH access and environmental resource management to strengthen resilience coping mechanisms and improve the quality of family life in rural and peri-urban areas regardless of religious affiliation, gender, ethnic and racial identity.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTo see families and individuals have access to WASH and build resilience across vulnerable regions.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOur work is driven firmly by operational excellence grounded upon Equality and Respect, Family Care, Transparency and Accountability, Love and Justice, and Passionate Stewardship.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n
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Directs administrative operations, manages partnerships, oversees programmatic execution, and ensures general legal and financial compliance across the trust.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDirects engineering applications, supervises the testing and rolling out of community technologies, schedules field timelines, and coordinates technical operations.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMonitors performance indicators, gathers project assessment data, and tracks information on community programs and high-impact field setups.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tManages proposal designs, coordinates donor communications, and works to secure financing portfolios for environmental and clean water initiatives.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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About us WASH INTERNATIONAL TRUST (WASHI), (TR\/INC:7689) was registered in 2019 as a charity in Malawi. It is founded on the principle \u201cDon\u2019t Destroy the World, Preserve It: Genesis 2:15\u201d and is working towards the global agenda of ending WASH poverty in Africa, building the resilience of communities and strengthening their self-supporting capacities. WASHI seeks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washitrustmw.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washitrustmw.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washitrustmw.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washitrustmw.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washitrustmw.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":149,"href":"https:\/\/washitrustmw.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/washitrustmw.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washitrustmw.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}