World Toilet Day 19 November

 

Preamble

The following people have no adequate sanitation. India 818 million, China 607 million, Indonesia 109 million, Nigeria 103 million, Pakistan 98 million

 

Do not laugh at World Toilet Day

2.5 billion people don't have

Access to any kind of toilet

Whether personal or community type lav

 

They urinate and defecate where they can

Create conditions for dangerous disease

They have no real choice in the matter

They urinate, defecate where they please

 

More people have mobile phones than a toilet

6 billion people own their own phone

But only 4.5 have access to a toilet

Not all with the luxury of their own

 

The 2015 goal was to halve

All people living without toilets this way

It's running 150 years behind schedule

More money needed, more money, each day

 

The United Nations in 2013 agreed

To call it World Sanitation Day

But to simplify public understanding and acceptance

Renamed it as World Toilet Day

 

The World Toilet Organisation have come up with

Some amusing suggestions to raise cash

Urgent runs (call them 'fun runs') can be held

A fun run, yes, a fun run loo dash

 

Get all your friends to go squat

On the floor for a dollar a go

Break this taboo and start talking

About sanitation, high and low

 

Don Matthews November 2018