Toilet Twinning from CORD - Bishop of Coventry

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For every $1dollar spent on sanitation at least $9dollars are saved in health, education and economic development (UN)

Sanitation is more important than independence

In the future the flush toilet will become extinct. It makes no sense to flush excreta with precious drinking water. It's costly in terms of money and energy. In rural areas dry toilets have already become the best accepted technology. It's called Ecological Sanitation.

At current rates of progress the Millennium Development Goals sanitation target will not be met until the 22nd century. That's over 80 years too late!

For every $1dollar spent on sanitation at least $9dollars are saved in health, education and economic development (UN)

Children will continue to suffer the most with shortened life spans, missed schooling, disease, malnutrition and poverty.

60% of all rural diseases are caused by poor hygiene and sanitation.

More than 433 million school days are lost each year because of water-borne disease.

At any one time, half of the world's hospital beds are filled with people suffering from water-borne diseases caused by pollution from untreated sewage.

A baby born in sub-Saharan Africa is 500 times more likely to die from diarrhoeal diseases than a baby in the developed world. Even worse Diarrhoea can lead to severe malnutrition which contributed to 6 million child deaths a year.

Every day 5,000 children under 5 die needlessly from diarrhoeal diseases caused by dirty water.

In Africa it is estimated that 5% of GDP is lost to the illnesses and deaths caused by poor sanitation and water. (Source: UN)

40% of the world’s population who have to use fields, streams, rivers, railway lines, canal banks, roadsides, plastic bags, or squalid, disease breeding buckets.

Without toilets, disease and death are rife. Illness prevents people from working. It stops children going to school. It stops peace being built.

Without toilets, human waste can contaminate water, food and causes the majority of illness in the world. Illnesses like diarrhoea, which stop children growing healthily and lead to malnutrition.

One gram of faeces can contain 10 million viruses, one million bacteria, 1000 parasite cysts and 100 parasite eggs.

Every day 2.6 billion people do not have somewhere safe, private or hygienic to go to the toilet.

Bishop of Coventry Twins his Toilet

The Bishop of Coventry has become one of the World’s first Toilet Twinners- linking his loo with its ‘twin’ deep in the African bush.

The Rt. Reverend Christopher Cocksworth today invited the press into his smallest room at the Bishop’s House, and proudly displayed the picture of his exclusive twin latrine, complete with its Google Earth location so he can pinpoint it in the remote Rutana Province of Burundi.

Toilet Twinning – a global CORD initiative - is being seen as a potty way to make money and flush away poverty. For just £60 twinners can help a family returning home to a country ravaged by years of civil war to start again from scratch.

‘Its’ a bog standard idea with a great message,’ said Bishop Christopher. ’40 per cent of the world’s population- 2.6 billion people - don’t have access to a toilet and it’s hard to imagine what that must be like. Left lying around human waste is a killer and without proper sanitation and health training, Burundians can’t hope to keep well, to work, go to school and begin to rebuild their country.’

The Toilet Twinning campaign is also endorsed by CORD Ambassador Corinne Bailey Rae and has won support from the Royal Shakespeare Company and the West Midlands Fire Service who have signed up to twin their loos.

‘It’s the children who suffer the most with shortened life spans, missed schooling and illness due to living with untreated sewage’ said Corinne. ‘In Burundi having a toilet is literally saving lives. I would encourage everyone to get twinning!’

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