Toilet Twinning at St George’s
You can probably drink a glass of water, wash your hands or go to the toilet without it turning into a life-or-death situation. Yet dirty drinking water, unhealthy hygiene and unsafe sanitation cause the deaths of 1.4 million people every year and over 1000 children under the age of 5 every day.
Toilet twinning is a fundraising campaign which helps local communities access decent toilets, healthy hygiene and safe drinking water, providing restricted funding for international relief and development charity Tearfund’s water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) work in over 50 countries worldwide.
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Toilet twinning is a fundraising campaign which helps local communities access decent toilets, healthy hygiene and safe drinking water, providing restricted funding for international relief and development charity Tearfund’s water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) work in over 50 countries worldwide.
Tearfund believe that all three elements – water, sanitation and hygiene – need to go together. They are committed to working in full participation with communities, empowering them to own and manage sustainable and safe water and sanitation services. Toilet Twining funds hygiene education via community-led workshops and sourcing local materials for families and communities to build their own toilets
Toilet Twinning is an initiative which invites people to "twin" their own toilet with latrines in poor communities. This is a way of raising funds to enable people in the poorest nations to have clean water and a proper toilet, and to learn about hygiene.
In stable communities, Toilet Twinning works through a model of community mobilisation to create locally owned and locally delivered water and sanitation programmes. Hygiene education is a key focus of Toilet Twinning’s work.
In conflict areas, where little infrastructure exists, Toilet Twinning funds programmes that build toilets and provide clean water.
As part of our Live Simply initiative where we are trying to live in solidarity with our global family, some parishioners have raised funds to twin Saint George’s Parish toilet with a toilet in Panyagor, Kongor, Twic East, South Sudan. We are proudly displaying our certificate in the parish toilet to show our solidarity with the people of Panyagor, South Sudan with the hope that by our small action we can help to transform lives around the world.
