Toilets play an important role in creating a powerful economy and increasing health and conserving people's dignity and safety (especially girls and women). According to the World Health Organization in 2015, about 2.4 billion people are living without adequate sanitation and one in ten people had no choice other than to have open defecation. According to the WAS-Hwatch report in 2016, due to unprotected water and sanitation, diarrheal disease leads to the death of 315,000 children every year.
World Toilet Day is the annual event to be celebrated on November 19. This day emphasizes the importance of adequate sanitation and recommends access to safe and clean toilets for everyone. It was originally launched by the World Wide Organization in 2001. This day is celebrated to attract attention to the international hygiene crisis.
World Toilets Day will be celebrated on Monday, 19th November 2018.
Worldwide sanitation status
According to an estimate, about one billion people are being exposed in the open due to lack of sanitation facility of about 2.4 billion people in 2015. Like the right to clean water, the right to cleanliness is also a human right. The lack of hygiene has adverse effects on people's dignity, safety and health.
Different diseases in children (such as diarrhea, schistosomiasis, soyle-transmitted helminthiasis) and the spread of chronic malnutrition, which is related to a condition called environmental enropopathy, is directly related to the contact of the stool of the human. In a study of 145 countries it was assessed that 58% of the diarrhea was due to poor sanitation, lack of cleanliness and unsafe water. Because of this, more than 5,26,000 children under the age of five die in 2015 due to diarrhea associated with cleanliness, hygiene and water.
Proper hygiene has been evaluated to reduce the difficulties of children suffering from diarrhea from 7 to 17%. Securing human contact with feces is a result of a healthy environment that provides protection against many diseases. Although cleanliness has less funding than water in the past, providing basic toilet facilities rather than providing clean drinking water reduces the ability of the disease to reduce it twice.
Toxicity in the open is not right for human dignity and safety. This fact is especially true for girls and women in developing countries who lose their privacy due to open defecation because it is a matter of shame for them to be defeated in open. Apart from this, they have to wait night for defecation and have to stop them all day. In developing countries, women are expressing their feelings of fear of rape or assault when leaving their homes to go to the toilet. It is very common to uncover the report of harassment or attacks of women in areas near or near toilets. The result of such violence against them is psychological and physical for the victim, whose impact falls on society and families who are living with gender inequalities.
From 2000 to 2015, people worked with the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations, to provide safe toilets and open defecation in the open. The goal of cleanliness of 2015 could not touch 700 million people and less developed countries are not able to reach the goal of cleanliness. Only 27% of the less developed countries have improved sanitation facilities since 1990.
World toilets organization
The World Toilet Organization is an international non-profit organization committed to improving sanitation and toilets worldwide. The organization was started in 2001 with 15 members. Now its number has increased from 53 countries to 151. All members of the organization work to eliminate the problem of toilets and solve the cleanliness across the world. Apart from this, the World Toilets Organization is organizing the World Toilet Conference and this organization has started World's Toilet Day from the United Nations.
This organization was founded in Singapore by Jack Sim on November 19, 2001. It serves as a service platform and a global network for UN agencies, academies, toilets associations, toilets stakeholders and the government. Since its inception, it has tied private sector, governments, civil society, education and multilateral agencies together to find permanent and innovative solutions to end the global hygiene crisis. Its mission is to promote the movement of global cleanliness with the help of collaborative work, which stimulates and inspires the demand for cleanliness and provides new solutions for continuous hygiene for all.
History of World Toilet Day
In 2001, the World Wide Organization started the World Toilet Day. Jack Sim of Singapore and the Restaurant Association of Singapore realized that there should be an international day on the issue of toilets and so they proceeded with the idea of ​​making World's Toilet Day so that it is about cleanliness issues for people all over the world. Remind me
Since the establishment of World Toilet Day, businesses, governments, and many other groups have played a very important role in promoting this to change the world. This day has broken many restrictions which are to discuss the topic of toilets and to make a better and better solution.
Why World Toilet Day is celebrated?
World Toilets Day seeks public attention for many cleanliness issues and tries to solve those issues. Though access to adequate sanitation has been declared as human rights, but one in three people in the world has no clear view of toilets. In addition to those who have access to unsafe and unclean toilets, they have to face many kinds of problems, including many diseases like typhoid, cholera, diarrhea and hepatitis. In the open, cases of sexual harassment occurring on children and women are increased when they go to the toilet. The ultimate purpose of World Toilet Day is to allow all persons to take care of their primary needs without fear of security.
In the words of Jack Sim, founder of the World Toilet Organization, - "We can not improve about what we can not discuss". World Toilets Day offers a valuable opportunity to spread awareness on the importance of cleanliness and encourages the speed of purpose to improve everywhere and maintain proper cleanliness there every year. This day ensures that everyone should have access to safe toilets and cleanliness. Explaining the purpose of World Toilet Day to all people is an international development priority and for those who do not have toilet facilities, there is an urgent need to stop the sanitation crisis. This day also inspires people to take the necessary steps to end this crisis.
Theme Toilet Day (World Toilet Day) 2017 Theme
Every year World Toilet Day is celebrated with a different focus, slogan or theme. The theme of "WestWorter" has been kept in 2017.
The aim of sustainable development goals by 2030 is to provide cleanliness to each individual and to double-divide the proportion of wastewater, which can not be reused, and reuse safely and increase recycling. For this, all people need to be contained in a permanent and safe way, treatment, disposal and transportation. Currently sanitation systems are either ineffective or non-existent for billions of people around the world. Human waste exposes deadly disease. This means that the survival of children and the progress of health is very little. Raise the goal towards reaching the goal according to the theme, the step is divided into four parts.
- Prevention - defecation should be put in a clean toilet and stored in a closed tank or pit from the contact of humans.
- Transport - Toilets should be removed in the treatment phase of the vacuum-free solution.
- Treatment - defecation should be left in waste water and waste products should also be pressed safely in the environment.
- Reuse or disposal - defecation can be used for the production of energy or fertilizer in production of food.
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Theme of past years of World Toilet Day
- The theme of 2016 was: "Toilets and jobs"
- The 2015 theme was: "Toilets and nutrition"
- The theme of 2014 was: "Equality and Respect"
- The theme of 2013 was: "Tourism and Water: The Security of Our Common Future"
- The theme of 2012 was: "I do bad things, do you?"
How is World Toilet Day celebrated?
World Toilet Day is celebrated with great enthusiasm around the world. Every year, World Toilets Organization celebrates World Toilet Day with "Urgent Run". Urgent Run is an organization that demands immediate action to stop the sanitation crisis and to bring communities together around the world to spread awareness on the challenge of global cleanliness and to include people with cleanliness issues in their regional communities. Runs with the aim of.
Over the past few years, communities around the world have organized 63 programs based on hygiene in 42 countries. The nature of these programs vary, including academic events, fun events, toilets cleaning programs, awareness programs, motorbike parades and carnival. Organizations organized by companies, community groups, volunteers, NGOs and universities are organized to unite local communities on the challenges of cleanliness. Countries around the world like Benin, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Canada, China, Burundi, Cameroon, France, Germany, India, Ghana, Congo-Brazzaville, Gambia, Italy, Indonesia, Namibia, Pakistan, Philippines, Kenya, Netherlands, United States America, Vietnam, Senegal, Mongolia and Mozambique etc. are included in this. They all share an unified message that demands immediate action to prevent the world's cleanliness crisis.
Some examples of festivals held in recent years worldwide are as follows:
India: Toilets are a necessary work in India. Over 60% of the population still lack access to cleanliness. World toilets day is an important day of India because it is an important issue in the country, especially for children and women. This ceremony is celebrated in the capital of the country, especially in the toilets museum in Delhi.
For the first time in the world in 2014, a long and unique three-day celebration was held in New Delhi from 18 to 20 November as the International Toilet Festival. The festival was organized to raise awareness of the importance of toilets. At the inauguration ceremony, about 1000 students from six countries created a series in which they kept toilet pots on their heads. To increase the awareness about toilets, theme-based programs, fashion shows, seminars, talk shows, sports events, awareness campaigns and a series of cultural programs on popular places like Pragati Maidan, Metro Stations, India Gate, Connaught Place, Delhi Haat and Qutub Minar Was also organized.
A social service organization in India organizes several programs to attract public attention on the issue of accessible international toilets. An International Toilet Festival was also organized to facilitate a discussion on World Toilet Day.
Singapore: World Toilet Day is celebrated every year in Singapore. Local shows include road shows that last till November 19th. Massive toilet balloons or spacious toilets seats have been kept to attract as many people as possible and to enhance understanding on this day. Exhibitions are organized where people talk to the World Toilet Organization employees to share the world's toilet development and history. Global cleanliness issues are shared by the employees by the general public, in which they tell the students about the importance of making toilets and good hygiene practices in rural areas. Toilet games are also organized and free prizes are distributed to attract people to this issue. Singaporeans also donate money to make this objective successful by buying the T-shirts and medals of the Argent Run.
Vietnam: Through World Education Day, Viet Nam Women's Union, Ministry of Education and Training, United Nations Children's Fund, Ministry of Health and Local Authorities in Vietnam to increase sanitation of rural areas and improve the health conditions of local people through continuous education and through many communication channels. is celebrated. In 2012, awareness programs are organized in the country so that awareness can be expanded and cleanliness can be improved and in particular the environmental cleanliness of rural Vietnamese people can be increased. In order to impart education on proper hygiene, sanitation education programs are also organized for the children of primary schools. Argentian Runners also participate in various competitions to celebrate this day.
Germany: People of Germany also celebrate World Toilet Day every year to spread awareness on the importance of this day. The German Toilet Organization organizes various events that make people aware about the issues of global cleanliness and the essence of toilets. With the slogan on the importance of toilets, the general public contributed to breaking sanctions restrictions on their photographs. Exhibitions are also organized at the main center of the Berlin's main station. School children have actively participated in this day by organizing a road show program along with their schools.
Australia: Australia's people take the theme of the toilet very seriously. Every year World Toilet Day is celebrated with great enthusiasm in the country. People from different community groups, workplaces and school donate this issue on this day. WaterAid, Australia helps in building thousands of toilets to the world's poorest communities with the help of its partners and local people. Many programs are also organized in many places to provide basic information on the issues of health and hygiene of the common people. Universities, government bodies, private individuals and organizations participate in programs organized to celebrate Toilet Day in all the countries.
Suggestions for organizing World Toilet Day in India
According to the current report, India has the longest queues for toilets. If all the people of the country, who are standing in wait outside the toilets, stand in a line, then this line will take 5892 years to finish and it will become a long line from Moon to Earth. In our country too, maximum number of people open defecation. According to the latest census data, nearly half of the country, including 1.2 billion people, have no toilet facility in the house, but all of them have mobile phones. Although a lot has been done in this direction, especially women are facing many problems due to lack of access to toilets. The number of women demanding toilets during their wedding day is increasing day by day. World Toilet Day provides an opportunity to increase understanding on this issue. Here are some suggestions for celebrating this day in India:
- People of India can participate in the aristocratic run or can host their own private events. Ezent Run is an international program that draws attention to immediate action and eliminates the crisis of hygiene.
- Awareness can also be increased by sharing posts on Instagram, Facebook, Google+ and other social media platforms. You can use #Sanitation, #Opendefection, #wecantwait, #worldtoiletday, etc.
- On this day people can contact their MPs, community leaders or local representatives so that they can take care of public toilets in their area. Talk about the toilets with local communities on Toilet Day.
- Talk about this with classmates, friends, family, colleagues and neighbors, help break the myths of toilets and help spread awareness on the importance of action towards cleanliness.
- People have more mobile phones than toilets. So take a selfie with a toilet on the World's Toilet Day and post it on social media so that people can show how fortunate you are that you have such a facility.
- Donate to create new toilets in your area.
- Learn about the scarcity of hygiene on the world toilet organization's website "org" and also find out how you can get involved in various toilet matters.
Conclusion
People with access to toilets probably do not think much about the value of hygiene. Such people see themselves as a place to relieve themselves and overcome their stools. But 2.4 billion people worldwide, who do not have access to basic toilet, this means more than that. Although the government is contributing in various ways in this direction, our Government of India has planned to construct 'Clean India Mission' toilets for each house till 2019 year. But still many people, especially women and children, are suffering from diseases due to open defecation.
World Toilet Day provides the best platform for spreading awareness on this issue and helps people contribute for this reason.
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