World Toilet Day - November 19
November 19 marks World Toilet Day, an annual global event organized by UN Water to raise awareness of the crucial role that sanitation plays in reducing disease and creating healthier communities. The theme for 2022 was Making the Invisible Visible, exploring how inadequate sanitation systems spread human waste into rivers, lakes and soil, polluting underground water resources. However, this problem seems to be invisible. Invisible because it happens underground. Invisible because it happens in the poorest and most marginalized communities.
Today, 4.2 billion people live without safely managed sanitation, 673 million still practice open defecation and three billion lack basic handwashing facilities. This sanitation crisis means untreated human waste is spreading diseases into water supplies and the food chain for billions of people. Inadequate sanitation is estimated to cause 432,000 diarrheic deaths every year.

Run a simple fundraiser and build “toilets” to collect donations from soup cans!

Host an Urgent Run – be creative in what that means! Find some hosting resources here.