If you’ve been reading my blog for a while now, you will know that around this time of the a year I often run posts to raise awareness for World Toilet Day, an initiative that was launched 15 years ago to make people aware of the global sanitation crisis.
Domestos have backed the campaign for the past 6 years to raise funds for those 2.4 billion people who don’t have access to basic sanitation. They go to the toilet in the open and don’t only risk their health, but also their life.
Diseases caused by lack of access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene have a huge impact upon children’s well-being, health and education. Without access to proper sanitation, illnesses such as diarrhoea can spread like a wildfire within communities and lead to dehydration and malnutrition, which in return have an effect on a child’s growth and their ability to learn and attend school. Each year, children in developing countries take 443 million sick days because they don’t have access to safe water or sanitation. Just to give an idea, that’s the same as every child in the UK missing school for an entire three months!
Luckily, Domestos and UNICEF are working hard to bring clean water and sanitation to developing countries and the good news is that you can help them. If you want to find out more about their work, how you can get involved and what the situation is like in affected countries, make sure to check out the video below.
This post was sponsored by Domestos.