WTD Marked In Benin

    A Water closet being washed

By Bernadette Idalu
Edo State today joined other critical health stakeholders worldwide to mark the  2023, "World Toilet Day" (WTD), with the theme, "Accelerating Change" to highlight the journey at entrenching proper personal hygiene to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) rule 6 which focuses on Clean Water and Sanitation.

Buoyed by the need to encourage proper toilet hygiene and bring home the point that you are also not safe from germs by simply rinsing your hands with water after using the toilet, the day is used to enlighten people on how to "have proper access to toilets and the significance of having good hygiene in the daily lifestyle."

WTD is "observed to create conversations related to good sanitation and how we all can do our bit in improving the scenario."

Giving a headstart to the occasion prior to the main event today, a toilet cleaning brand, yesterday, was observed engaged in a road walk along "Boundary Road," off "Adesuwa Road" Benin City, the Edo State capital, sharing fliers and hypo toilet cleaner liquid to motorists and pedestrians to educate and enlighten on procedures for a germ free toilet use.

Established in 2001 by the World Toilet Organization, the WTD was made an official United Nations Observance in 2013, to help people "choose sanitation related actions to speed up progress on this part of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 'rule  6" which seeks to break taboos by making people "talk about the critical connection between toilets, water and menstruation as well as the need to flush safe; fix leaking water and waste pipes, empty full septic tanks and report dumping of sludge."

This event is observed every November 19th to inspire action to tackle global sanitation crisis with 4.2 billion people presently said to live without "safely managed sanitation" and around 673 million people practicing open defecation.





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