How wiping your bum can help solve sanitation issues
Eco-friendly toilet paper brand Who Gives a Crap and international development charity WaterAid have launched a joint Impact Accelerator, aimed at bringing the best minds in sanitation across the globe together to solve its biggest issues, including two billion people still lacking access to a decent toilet.
The Who Gives A Crap and WaterAid Impact Accelerator will see the two organisations, who have been in partnership since 2012, bring an innovative approach to finding scalable solutions to sanitation's biggest issues.
A decent toilet is a basic human right that protects people from dangerous diseases and provides dignity. Yet the global sanitation crisis sees two billion people worldwide – that’s one in four - still living without a toilet, and over 800 children dying every day from diarrhoeal diseases caused by poor water and sanitation.
Funded by Who Gives A Crap with an initial investment of $1 million, the Impact Accelerator will trial new approaches to sanitation in WaterAid programs across the globe, focusing on innovative and scalable approaches to global sanitation issues including new challenges, such as the impact of climate change and neglected issues such as sanitation workers.
During an initial eight-week program, teams will spend that time creating solution-focused projects and will then be supported with the resources and funding needed to implement these projects on the ground in their countries.
The first accelerator sessions will be piloted by WaterAid Bangladesh, India and Cambodia, focusing on challenges around urban sanitation workers.
Through these programs, WaterAid and Who Gives A Crap commit to sharing with openness what initiatives are succeeding and which are failing and why, so the entire sector can benefit, and the programs can help the global community achieve the goal that everyone, everywhere has access to a clean and functioning toilet.
What toilet paper do you use at home? Would you consider switching to a toilet paper committed to fixing sanitation problems around the world?
I live in SE Asia for 10 years now & we use soap & water.....after paper , but usually just water & gel.
Most toilets have a "bum gun" hose attachment . I can't imagine going back to just paper. Think about it......your wiping the crap away with dry paper,,,,,no wonder their asses stink & skid marks on their clothes.
I often wonder.....how do morbidly obese people wipe their asses,,probably don't. Most wouldn't have arms long enough to reach.
I read an article where a fat guy carried BBQ tongs with him to assist in wiping his ass.