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World Toilet Day
19 November is World Toilet Day – a day to celebrate the humble, yet vitally important, toilet and to raise awareness of the global sanitation crisis.
Imagine life without a toilet. No toilets in your home or at work, no public toilets, no toilets anywhere. Imagine the mess. Imagine the disease.
WaterAid is working hard to change this, using simple and low cost solutions, and there are many easy and fun ways you can get involved.
Raise awareness
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Celebrate – buy a bog!
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Take action by downloading our awareness-raising posters from our campaigns section and posting them wherever you can.
It's hard to imagine life without toilets, but this is the daily reality for 2.6 billion people – 40% of the world's population.
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To raise awareness of the global sanitation crisis and celebrate this humble, yet essential bathroom fixture, WaterAid are asking people to give someone a present they desperately need.
For £46 you can give a gift that restores a family's health, pride and dignity – a toilet.
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Did you know?
- 2.5 billion people do not have somewhere safe, private or hygienic to go to the toilet.
- 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.
Other actions you can take this World Toilet Day
 Make a donation
To mark World Toilet Day, donate to WaterAid with your credit or debit card and help us reach even more people in urgent need of safe sanitation.
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 Listen to our World Toilet Day podcast
Listen to Ada Williams, WaterAid's Learning Coordinator for Sanitation in West Africa, explores sanitation issues in our World Toilet Day podcast. Listen now
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 Toilet Tax - spend a penny
Charge a nominal fee to work colleagues when they use the bathroom. This highlights how on any other day of the year, using the toilet is free - a luxury and right that many in the developing world simply do not have. |
 Tasteless tie and tacky earrings competition
Don your most daring décor on Monday 19 November, all in the name of toilets! Fundraise in your workplace by holding a tasteless tie and tacky earrings competition, and flaunt your fashion faux-pas to raise vital funds, making toilets and latrines a reality for some of the world's poorest people. |
 turdlywinks
Play turdlywinks and get people talking about toilets. The game aims to highlight facts about the global sanitation crisis. It is available to play online here, or you can download it as a board game ( PDF 738Kb). |
 Tinkle time
Put up the Tinkle Test poster ( PDF 100Kb) wherever you can. The toilet door is always a good place. The poster reminds people of both the importance of having a safe, plentiful supply of drinking water and having a safe, clean place to go to the toilet. |
 Poopla
Play Poopla with friends or colleagues. By getting people to throw fake poos into a life-size model loo you remind them of how lucky they are to have a toilet! For more details on organising this, contact campaigns@wateraid.org. |
 Make a World Toilet day resolution:
Support WaterAid through payroll giving.
Your regular support through payroll giving can help us reach even more people and enable them to access life saving toilets. With payroll giving your gift can go up to 40% further. Find out more here.
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