Both staff, parents and pupils at Pontesbury CE Primary School have supported this cause brilliantly in the past and so far we have successfully twinned both staff toilets, plus one of the KS1 toilet blocks!
We’d now like to twin another of our pupil toilet blocks, so on Friday 16th February we are having a non-uniform day and ask for a minimum donation of £1 per child please. It costs £240 to twin a toilet block, and with 230 pupils on roll, we are really hoping to hit this target on the day! Thanks in advance for your support.
Please see below for more details from the Toilet Twinning website https://www.toilettwinning.org/:
WHY WE DO IT?
- 2.3 billion people don’t have somewhere safe and hygienic to go to the toilet. (WHO/Unicef)
- The lack of a loo makes women and girls a target for sexual attack as they go to the toilet in the open, late at night.
- Almost 1,000 children die every day from preventable diseases linked to dirty water and unsafe toilets. (UN)
- 663 million people live without safe water. (Unicef)
- Children worldwide miss 443 million school days each year because of dirty water and poor sanitation. (UN)
- Every year, women and girls spend 97 billion hours finding a place to go. (World Bank)
KICKING UP A STINK
It’s out of order! 1 in 3 people across the world don’t have somewhere safe to go to the toilet. Bad sanitation is one of the world’s biggest killers: it hits women, children, old and sick people hardest. Every minute, a child under the age of five dies because of dirty water and poor sanitation. Around half the people in the world have an illness caused by bad sanitation.
Women and Girls suffer most
In Africa, half of young girls who drop out of school do so because they need to collect water – often from many miles away – or because the school hasn’t got separate toilets for boys and girls. Not having a loo puts people at risk of being bitten by snakes as they squat in the grass and makes women and girls a target for sexual assault as they go to the toilet in the open.
Big Job
We must do what we can to make a difference.
Providing people with clean water and basic sanitation is one of the most cost-effective ways to release people from poverty: for every £1 spent on water and sanitation, more than £5 is returned through saved time, increased productivity and reduced health costs.
Missing the target
In 2000, 189 countries from across the world signed up to the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. The plan was that we’d all work together to end extreme poverty by 2015. In many areas, huge progress was made – but sanitation is one of those targets that is way off. It’s predicted that we won’t hit the sanitation target in sub-Saharan Africa until the 23rd century.