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2.5 billion people across the world don’t have somewhere safe to go to the toilet (WHO / UNICEF)
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Bad sanitation is one of the world’s biggest killers: it hits women, children, old and sick people hardest
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Every minute, three children under the age of five die because of dirty water and poor sanitation (WHO)
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Right now, more than 50 per cent of hospital beds in developing countries are filled with people who have an illness caused by poor sanitation or dirty water (UNDP)
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In Africa, half of young girls who drop out of school do so because they need to collect water – often from many miles away – or because the school hasn’t got a basic toilet.
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The lack of a loo makes women and girls a target for sexual assault as they go to the toilet in the open, late at night
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Many women get bitten by snakes as they squat in the grass to go to the toilet
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For every £1 spent on a water and sanitation programme, £8 is returned through saved time, increased productivity and reduced health costs. (UNDP)
- In 2000, 189 countries signed up to the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. The sanitation target for 2015 is currently way off-target and won’t be met in sub-Sharan African until the 23rd century.
What is Toilet Twinning doing?
- By linking your loo with a toilet in Africa, you'll help provide clean water and effective santitation to some of the world's poorest communities.
- Since 2009, Toilet Twinning partner Cord has built over 1,500 toilets in the Rutana Province of Burundi, benefitting over 9,000 people.
