Children lead the way on World Toilet Day

At a school in western Kenya, some young poets are reciting a poem. ‘The Big Squat’ is a verse dramatising the proper use of toilets. The audience applauds and there are peals of laughter.
 
Most of us take them for granted, but around the world, millions of people do not have access to clean, hygienic toilet facilities. For them, toilets are not a laughing matter.
 
According to Hilda Winartasaputra, Plan’s Water and Sanitation specialist in Asia, one in three people in the world are forced to defecate in the open because they have nowhere else to go. In India there are now more people with a mobile phone link up than there are with a toilet, and diarrhoea kills more children every year than AIDS, malaria and measles combined. 

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