27 Toilets and Counting…
World Toilet Day takes place every year on 19th November. World Toilet Day is such an important day: because 2.3 billion people still don’t have a proper toilet – and we all know that’s bang out of order. It began in 2007, with it being recognised by the United Nations as an official day in 2013.
It has, of course, nothing to do with celebrating the chinaware we take for granted in our bathrooms and en-suites. World Toilet Day was created to inspire people around the world to take action against the global sanitation crisis. Its motto is ‘leaving no one behind’ and its goal is to provide everyone with access to the most basic of needs – a hygienic and private place to go to the toilet; protecting and maintaining both personal health and dignity.
We thought World Toilet Day marked the perfect day to talk about a charity close to our hearts.
Wilson Washroom Services is a member of the Independent Washroom Services Association (IWSA), an organisation of like-minded washroom service providers from across the UK and Ireland, who work together to deliver high quality servicing nationwide.
Since the beginning of 2018, the IWSA has been supporting the charity Toilet Twinning, whose aim is to ‘flush away poverty, one toilet at a time’. The charity has come up with a novel way to raise funds and also highlight its work by encouraging people to twin their loo with one in the communities they work with. Their projects focus on working with poor communities in developing countries, giving families access to clean water and educating them on the importance of good hygiene.
We are proud to announce that the IWSA has twinned with 27 loos around the globe, with that total increasing each month.
Let’s use 19th November to take a moment and reflect on something we all take for granted, and with Christmas just around the corner maybe you could consider twinning a toilet or two?
Do you have any toilets left to twin, either at your home or as preparation for Christmas gifting? If so, we’d absolutely love if you could mark World Toilet Day with us! The twinning totaliser is now LIVE on the Toilet Twinning website – taking us all the way to midnight…
Find out more about how you can twin your toilet.
