Serious delays achieving sanitation Millennium Development Goal

International Toilet day: Six out of ten Africans still do not have proper toilets

980 million children around the world - do not have toilets at home. If current trends continue, by 2015 2.4 billion people will still lack access to basic sanitation. Children are especially vulnerable to diseases spread through fecal contamination; high mortality rates, school enrollment down for girls, etc. Overall 27% of people in Sub-Saharan part of Africa still practice open defecation. NGOs - WaterAid and Plan International are raising the alert to this serious risk for health and an affront to human dignity.

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World Toilet Day puts focus on sanitation issues

Everyone's got a bad toilet story. But what if squatting behind a bush was your everyday reality? No-one likes talking about pooh – but let's face it, toilets are arguably the single biggest thing that, if taken away, make life completely intolerable.

Most of us tend to take toilets for granted, but around the world, millions of people do not have access to clean, hygenic toilet facilities.

One in three people in the world are forced to defecate in the open, choosing fields, train tracks, woods or rivers because they have nowhere else to go to do their business.

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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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