Flushing Away Poverty - Toilet Twinning Launched

Cord is launching the FIRST GLOBAL TOILET TWINNING - an innovative campaign linking toilets around the world with those being built in Burundi by families returning from exile in Tanzania.

For just £60 you can exclusively twin your toilet at home, at your office or school with one deep in the African bush of Rutana Province- and track it down to its exact location via Google Earth.

Improving water and sanitation is key to Cord’s programme in remote Giharo Commune. Over the past 18 months we have helped local returnees to build 870 pit latrines, each benefiting a family of six. That’s 5,220 people who can now go to the loo in a safe, private and hygienic place. We plan to double that number.

Blocks of toilets have also been built at 3 primary schools, alongside water points- all part of our hygiene and sanitation training. ‘At current rates of progress the Millennium Development Goals for sanitation will not be met until the 22nd century, over eighty years too late,’ said Jasmine O’Connor, Cord’S Head of Africa Programmes.

‘Our work in Giharo is going to be duplicated in the coming year and the Toilet Twinning is a novel but vital way of lending your support to people who have returned home and are rebuilding their lives from scratch.’ As a Twinner you receive a special one off certificate to display in your smallest room picturing your twin, its exact location and Google map reference.

The first 500 Twinnings are on sale now via a special Cord website: www.toilettwinning.org or by calling 01926 315301. Get your friends twinning too via Cord’s Twitter page twitter.com/Corduk