Toilet Twinning - our man in Rutana

CORD Burundi’s Emmanuel Ndayabarwa has clocked up 7150 kms - 4,400 miles - riding deep into the African bush to check on the progress and log and record the coordinates of over 700 Toilet Twinning latrines.

The toilets, scattered amongst the remote hill villages of Giharo commune, Rutana Province, are being built by Burundians returning after 14 years exile in refugee camps of neighbouring Tanzania. Checking on the progress of the latrines and recording the map coordinates as part of the world’s first Toilet Twinning campaign is painstaking work for Emmanuel, who is travelling the rough and ready tracks on his trusted Yamaha 125 DT.

Made of hand made bricks and with corrugated roofs, concrete slabs and deep pits the latrines are bringing sanitation and improved health to thousands of people who lost everything in the long civil war.

So far, thanks in no small measure to Emmanuel’s journeys, Toilet Twinning has raised more than £50,000 for CORD’s work.

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