Why do we need it?

We take for granted the fact that we can use a toilet whenever we want. But for some 2.5 billion people, more than 40% of the world population, that option is not available.
 

• Every day these people defecate in the open. That amounts to approximately 45 million tonnes of human waste per day polluting waterways, water sources and fields.
• More people die from water related illnesses such as cholera, typhoid and diarrhoea than from HIV/AIDs, malaria and measles combined.
• 4 out of 10 children in the developing world, that’s 5,000 a day, die from intestinal illness.
• Every day half the hospital beds in the developing world are occupied by patients suffering unnecessarily from water-borne diseases.

This problem is the least discussed and most poorly funded of all sectors of humanitarian assistance.

This is why we established Doorway to Dignity.

Whose idea was it?...