The East Meets West Foundation, in Oakland, California, works with local groups to provide hygiene education, train masons to build high-quality latrines, and broker low-cost loans that families can use to install latrines and hand-washing devices.
East Meets West will be able to use the $10.9-million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to bring hygiene education and well-built latrines to 344,000 households to serve more than 1.7 million people in Vietnam and Cambodia.
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