World Toilet Day, a UN Day of Observance, is held each year on 19
November
More people in the world have a mobile phone (6 billion) than have access to a toilet
(4.5 billion). One initiative linked with World Toilet Day is Toilet Twinning, begun by
CORD (Christian Outreach for Relief & Development) and now run by Tearfund. This
promotes projects for improving sanitation in some of the poorest communities in the
world, raising funds and awareness through twinning toilets. For £60, a home, church
or school can be linked to somewhere where facilities are very different. The funds
raised help Tearfund deliver water and sanitation projects in more than 25 countries.
Those twinned receive a certificate and photo, with coordinates of the toilet twinned.
For more information see www.toilettwinning.org
Pray for the Toilet Twinning initiative
and how your church might get
involved to help change the lives of
those at risk from poor sanitation,
for the work of CORD and Tearfund
and for all who live daily without
clean water or suitable sanitation.
Upton Deanery – Rural Dean: Christopher Moss;
Lay Chair: Maria Toman
Diocese of Uyo (Nigeria): Bishop Prince Asukwo Antai
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church: Archbishop Urmas
Viilma with Bishops Einar Soone, Tiit Salumäe,
Joel Luhamets, Andres Taul
Diocese of Rochester: Bishop James Langstaff
