By Yaqoob Sadiq | Project coordinator
Toilets are still out of reach for more than one-third of the global population, with devastating consequences for the health and development of children, says the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on World Toilet Day being observed worldwide on Tuesday.
In Pakistan, more than 43 million people defecate in the open. Every 24 hours, 320 children die from diarrhea – the result of a deadly combination of unsafe water and poor sanitation conditions. Water and sanitation related diseases are responsible for some 60 per cent of the total number of deaths of children under five years of age.
“Access to toilets remains the unmentionable, often shameful secret in Pakistan.” “But it’s invisibility doesn’t make it less harmless; in fact it is quite the reverse especially as poor sanitation conditions contribute to malnutrition and the high level of stunting in Pakistan and provide a fertile ground for spreading the Polio virus. Lack of access to safe sanitation is quite literally killing Pakistani children – day after day after day.”
“Every action which spurs people to change their way of dealing with defecation brings us closer towards the goal of sanitation for all. It is not easy, but it is certainly doable, and moreover, it is absolutely indispensable.”
Especially it’s really a difficult for the girls to overcome on this problem. They have to go for the toilet in the early morning to safe themselves from the man but sometime it’s easy. Even because of that they are facing so many problems with hygiene as they did not have water in the field to use it. Because of that its very important to have toilet at home to safe the girls from many incidents and also safe from many diseases which they because of the hygiene problems.
So there is lot to do in Pakistan for this issue as day by day its creating problems for the girls and other family members for their health. I request all our friends please give openly to save the girls in Pakistan and for their families.
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