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Who Gives A Crap and WaterAid launch Impact Accelerator to help solve global sanitation issues
Eco-friendly toilet paper brand Who Gives a Crap and international development charity WaterAid have today launched their joint Impact Accelerator, aimed at bringing the best minds in sanitation across the globe together to solve its biggest issues, including 2 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 a new bold and innovative approach to finding scalable solutions to sanitations 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.
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Thirty-year-old Aklima Akter of Mirpur s Duaripara slum shares her tiny and slippery hanging latrine with over 80 people in her neighbourhood.
The latrine is made out of tin and installed above a waterbody. It allows feces to fall through a pipe and contaminate the water. In absence of running water and hand-washing facilities, Aklima and her neighbours depend on one wash jug (bodna) of water to clean themselves after defecation.
During menstruation, it becomes more challenging for the poorest of the poor like Aklima to wash unsanitary rags inside the tiny space with such a small amount of water.
If she goes out to collect another wash jug of water, she hears taunting words from the male neighbours.