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healthy childhood they deserve, the education they need,
and the chance to turn their dreams into reality.
“Our luxurious Toilet of Dreams is helping WaterAid raise
awareness that the humble loo really can make dreams
come true.
Bioloos: Helping Achieve the Goal of Water and
Sanitation for All.
“The Toilet of Dreams uses pure frivolity to deliver our
deadly serious message and encourages festival-goers
to lend their support to WaterAid’s #TheWaterFight
petition.”
Almost 500 WaterAid volunteers will be campaigning
at the festival and collecting signatures for the
#TheWaterFight petition.
This calls on the UK Government to make sure that all
government plans for schools globally include taps and
toilets for every child.
Kenya is promising free sanitary napkins to
help keep girls in school
Kenya’s President has promised to give all school girls
free sanitary napkins. Less than two months before
Kenyans go to the polls, President Uhuru Kenyatta signed
the Basic Education Amendment Act which compels
An excerpt: In most of Asia and Africa, basic water and
sanitation services are provided by small and medium
businesses, also referred to as social enterprises, as they
help solve a crucial social problem.
India-based Banka BioLoo made a commitment to
provide affordable and sustainable sanitation through
Every Woman Every Child. The company has been
relentlessly working to attain SDG 6 by collaborating
with government bodies, Indian Railways, state-owned
enterprises, public sector undertakings, publicly-listed and
private companies, foundations, non-profit organizations,
and construction, infrastructure, and plantation companies
to provide sustainable bioloos in communities, schools,
homes, institutes, offices, hotels, hospitals and health
care facilities, work sites such as manufacturing facilities,
factories, mines, and of course in trains.
Banka BioLoo’s solutions help:
School girls with free sanitary towels
the government to provide “free, sufficient and quality
sanitary towels to every girl child registered and enrolled in
a public basic education institution.”
One in 10 girls on the continent misses school during
her period, according the United Nations education
agency. In Kenya, one of the biggest obstacles for girls
attending schools is a lack of sanitary napkins, often
too expensive for families to afford. Kenya’s ministry of
education estimates that girls who stay home while they
are menstruating lose six weeks of schooling a year.
• Meet the need for basic, easy-to-install, and
hygienic human waste disposal mechanisms in
areas with no current infrastructure facilities; and
• Address the need for a cheaper and easy-to-operate
alternative to the traditional waste disposal system.
The bioloo – a simple toilet shelter attached to a small bio-
digester tank with bacteria placed in it – treats the human
waste at source. There is no need to transport the waste,
no spoiling of the environment or groundwater, and no
need for energy nor heavy infrastructure.
On the contrary, the system gives pathogen-free water
that can be used for gardening and agriculture. For larger
systems, biogas can be collected and used for heating
and cooking. Bioloos can be installed anywhere – across
terrains, in remote and hilly areas, and in hot and cold
regions. The bio-toilet system disposes human waste in
a 100% eco-friendly manner – saving energy, conserving
water, and producing bio-gas.
Source: UN Foundation,
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