Toilet Twinning is a new and unique way of supporting people for whom good, clean, safe sanitation is a luxury – not a given.

Every day 2.5 billion people don’t have somewhere safe, private or hygienic to go to the toilet.

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That’s 40% of the world’s population who have to use fields, streams, rivers, railway lines, canal banks, roadsides, plastic bags, or squalid, disease breeding buckets.

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Dirty water, poor sanitation and unhygienic conditions increase the risk of illnesses causing diarrhoea, one of the leading causes of child deaths. Women and girls risk being attacked as they go to toilet out in the open.

In rural Burundi, less than half the population has access to a loo. DR Congo is a breeding ground for epidemics with poor sanitation, dirty drinking water, humidity and high rainfall. In Cambodia you’re more likely to own a mobile phone than a loo.

Your donation will be used to help provide improved sanitation, clean water and hygiene promotion in poor communities.