World Toilet Day celebrates toilets and raises awareness of the 4.2 billion people living without access to safely managed sanitation. It is about taking action to tackle the global sanitation crisis.

Everyone must have sustainable sanitation, alongside clean water and handwashing facilities, to help protect and maintain our health security and stop the spread of deadly infectious diseases such as COVID-19, cholera, and typhoid.

We should all care more about toilets. If you have one, thank it. Life without a toilet is dirty, dangerous and undignified.

Ammerdown is working alongside ToiletTwinning.org in an attempt to have all of our toilets twinned with a household toilet in a poor community overseas. It costs £60 for the team at ToiletTwinning.org to build a fully functioning latrine and they implement these in countries such as Nigeria, Afghanistan, Uganda and South Sudan.

Water and sanitation projects enable families to build a toilet, have access to clean water, and to learn about handwashing and other hygiene principles. Thanks to the amazing efforts of the ToiletTwinning team, cases of diarrhoea have tailed off dramatically and the communities they work with are well on the way to becoming open defecation free. They also provide crucial hygiene education which can safe lives.

All donations - no matter how big or small - are greatly appreciated.