World Toilet Day

Hoje, 19 de Novembro, comemora-se o World Toilet Day. Em inglês a expressão soa melhor do que "Dia Mundial da casa-de-banho". A organização procura sensibilizar o mundo para as questões do saneamento básico, ou para a falta dele, em muitos países do mundo, com reflexos nas condições de higiene e na saúde pública para muitos milhões de pessoas.

2.6 billion people worldwide are without access to proper sanitation, which risks their health, strips their dignity, and kills 1.8 million people, mostly children, a year.

Diarrheal diseases kill five times as many children in the developing world as HIV/AIDS. That's 5,000 children DYING EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Not only that, but the disease kills more children than either malaria or AIDS, stunts growth, and forces millions - adults and children alike - to spend weeks at a time off work or school, which hits both a country's economy and its citizens' chances of a better future. The majority of the illness in the world is caused by fecal matter.

Lack of sanitation is the world's biggest cause of infection.

One gram of feces can contain 10 million viruses, one million bacteria, 1,000 parasite cysts and 100 parasite eggs.

Safe disposal of children's feces leads to a reduction of nearly 40% in childhood diarrhea.

(vídeo desaconselhado a pessoas sensíveis)

E para envolver a população mundial neste dia, a organização convida à dinamização de um evento à escala mundial: The Big Squat..... o "Grande Agachamento"

Ver aqui mais informações como aderir, bem como as vantagens do "squatting".

Touché.