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Annual World Toilet Day | November 19th is World Toilet Day. Celebrated annually, it’s a day to celebrate the importance of the humble, yet vitally important, toilet and to raise awareness for the 2.5 billion people (nearly half of the world's population) who don't have access to toilets. According to the World Toilet Organisation over 2.5bn people are without access to proper sanitation, which risks their health, strips their dignity and kills more than 1.8m people a year.
Did you know?
5,000 children Die EVERY SINGLE DAY from diarrheal diseases
One gram of faeces can contain 10 million viruses, one million bacteria, 1,000 parasite cysts and 100 parasite eggs
The simple act of washing hands with soap and water after going to the toilet can reduce diarrhoeal diseases by over 40%
Safe disposal of children's faeces leads to a reduction of nearly 40% in childhood diarrhoea
For more information see the website of the World Toilet Organisation www.worldtoiletday.com
The Bog Standard campaign is working to raise standards of provision and access to school toilets in the UK. While all schools here do at least have toilets, they are not always of a standard you would expect of a developed country. There are many students in the UK avoiding going to the toilet all day because they can’t face the poor state of their school toilets or they can't face the behaviour that substandard toilets often attract. Or children and young people are not allowed to go to the toilet when they need to. Take a look at some of the comments parents and pupils share with us on this website. Some of their experiences are quite harrowing.
Toilets in the workplace that adults - and teachers in school - use are generally much better because there is Health and Safety Legislation that sets the standard. These do not apply to children and young people in school. The Bog Standard campaign is working to change this.
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