IT’s World Toilet Day today – a global initiative which aims to draw attention to the need for the provision of sanitation to people all over the world – particularly in developing countries.
The aim of World Toilet Day is to encourage awareness and to help in the global development priority of providing toilets to everyone, everywhere in the world, by 2030.
The World Toilet Organisation (WTO) was founded by Jack Sim on November 19, 2001. Since then the goals of the project has gained international support and attention.
By 2015, about 18 million South Africans needed access to better sanitation. Diarrhoea as a result of unhygienic living conditions and inadequate sanitation, is also one of the main health threats, particularly to young children, in the country.
