World Toilet Day is becoming more widely rec
ognised every year, and something we focus on every year at Stopcocks Women Plumbers.
But surely, a toilet should be for life not just one day a year?
Here in the UK we take toilets and effective sanitation for granted, although many of us felt the effects of inefficient plumbing if we were flooded out recently.
We don’t celebrate our good fortune every time we use a toilet, we probably have no idea how many people can’t use a toilet which safely removes human waste (2.5 billion people do not have a ‘clean’ toilet. Poo is responsible for more than 50% of the 9 million preventable child deaths each year).
It’s not sexy or glamorous, it all smells nasty and doesn’t fit with our image. We don’t have to think about it and that makes us very lucky indeed.
Not just today, spare a thought for the millions who are not in this fortunate position.
Please give a shit.
How are we giving a shit at Stopcocks Women Plumbers?
We’re collaborating with people living in an orphanage, village (and voluntouring centre) to help them provide themselves with clean water and sanitation. (Please note, we’re collaborating, this is not about Stopcocks storming in and knowing better what these people need).
The people in this village in Kenya are having a borehole drilled to they have access to water and a group of our plumbers will go to Kenya and help the people there to lay an easy to maintain pipeline to bring the water from the borehole to the people.
This is what they’ve asked us to do.
We’ll be sourcing the most appropriate technology to use in that region and communicating with the people there constantly to ensure that whatever we do won’t depend on us for it to continue.
We don’t know yet whether the toilets that come as a result will be water powered or composting toilets but there will be clean drinking water and a sanitation system that works!
So, if you give a shit, what are you doing? Go here for info about what’s happening for World Toilet Day http://www.worldtoiletday.org/
