Singer rewarded for shining light on sanitation

Feliciano dos Santos, a Mozambican musician, was recently awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for using his music star status to raise awareness about clean water and sanitation. The musician has held a longsuffering campaign in his native country to curb the effects of poor hygiene and water usage through the advancement of good water and sanitation practices in his music and through his NGO –Estamos. The UN says diarrheal diseases kill an estimated 1.8 million people each year around the world and in dos Santos’ country there has been much need for his services especially in Niassa, his home province, where he began his campaign in 1992. Dos Santos composed a song to promote the use of concrete slab latrines being advocated by the UN in his country in 1992 and never looked back -using his music from then on to tirelessly promote the safe use of water and cleanliness.

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