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3.5 billion PEOPLE LACK ACCESS TO SAFELY MANAGED SANITATION SERVICES,
AND AROUND 2 billion PEOPLE LACK BASIC HANDWASHING FACILITIES AT HOME
A staggering 410 million people relieve themselves outside, out of necessity or custom. This can contaminate water sources and expose girls and women to the threat of violence and harassment.
Access to water, sanitation, and hygiene is deeply interconnected and essential for broader human development and resilience. Adequate handwashing facilities are lacking in homes and schools; many children are unable to practice proper hand-hygiene, the most effective way to prevent epidemics and other infectious diseases. Investing in safe sanitation and hygiene leads to better health, education, and productivity, while strengthening communities for the future.
"Every day, 1,000 children under the age of five die from diseases linked to unsafe water, sanitation, and hygiene. Providing access to proper sanitation facilities not only ensures health and wellbeing, but also grants people the opportunity to live with dignity,” said UNICEF Director of Private Fundraising and Partnerships Carla Haddad Mardini.
CHILDREN AT RISK
400,000 children under-five years of age die each year, which is equivalent to one child dying every one and a half minutes, from diseases* due to a lack of safe water, sanitation and basic hygiene.
Serious malnutrition and stunted growth in children are linked to diarrhea and intestinal worm infections, impairing physical and mental development. Schools lacking hygiene infrastructure especially impact girls during menstruation, often causing them to drop out.
Around 2 billion people—one in four globally—lack basic handwashing facilities at home; 802 million schoolchildren lack such facilities at school, losing protection from infectious diseases.
Poor sanitation and hygiene reinforce inequality, negatively affecting educational and health outcomes and weakening community resilience to climate change.
Children are losing lives without toilets and handwashing facilities.
* Diarrhoeal disease, cholera, dysentery, shigellosis, typhoid, malaria, pneumonia, hepatitis, acute respiratory infection (ARI), protein energy malnutrition, soil transmitted helminths.
THE COST
In 2015, the burden of dealing with poor sanitation and related problems cost some countries as much as 5 percent of GDP. Among world regions, Asia Pacific suffers the greatest loss at 1.1 percent. Africa loses 0.9 percent, Latin America and the Caribbean lose 0.6 percent and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East lose 0.4 percent.
The global economy lost an estimated $223 billion USD in 2015 because of poor sanitation. *1
Access to clean water and toilets and improved hygiene practices by all people will lead to economic recovery of developing countries by trillions of dollars over the next 20 years.*2*1 LIXIL and Oxford Economics: The True Cost Of Poor Sanitation (September 2016)
*2 “Mission-critical: Invest in water, sanitation and hygiene for a healthy and green economic recovery” by WaterAid (A new page will open)
"VIDEO : THE TRUTH ABOUT GLOBAL SANITATION"
(July, 2018)
"In many countries, this sanitation crisis has devastating consequences for public health and reduces children’s
opportunities for the future, as many drop out of school because there is nowhere to go to the bathroom."
- Jin Montesano
Director, Representative Executive Officer, Executive Vice President,
Human Resources, Communications, External Affairs, and Impact Strategy, and Chief People Officer, LIXIL Corporation
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For only $25 USD, you can help one child access a toilet at home for a year or provide a school with 100 bars of soap. Your donation will be used to support LIXIL and UNICEF’s sanitation and hygiene programs.
Together, we can keep children healthy, safe, and learning at home and in school.
* "Progress on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene 2000-2022" by UNICEF and WHO's Joint Monitoring Programme report
https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/progress-on-household-drinking-water--sanitation-and-hygiene-2000-2022---special-focus-on-gender
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