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Video from Plan Nepal, promoting the community's efforts to create a clean and healthy community.
Date: 22 November 2011
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World Toilet Day 2011 events in Vietnam
Vietnam marked the 2011 World Toilet Day with a sanitation workshop, bringing together officials from the Ministry of Health, researchers from national research institutes and sanitation practitioners from various national agencies, NCCR North-South, WHO, Unilever, INGOs including Plan International, East Meets West and Lien Aid. Results of various researches related to sanitation were presented and discussed.
Date: 22 November 2011
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Let's talk about shit!
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Report from the Learning Alliance Workshop in Kampala September 2011
This meeting on learning alliances was held between September 6th-7th in Kampala, Uganda and brought together various members from the Pan-Africa programme which included the country teams from: Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and Uganda.
Date: 21 November 2011
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Ending Open Defecation to Save Lives: World Toilet Day 2011 in Kenya
The last one month we have been really busy gearing up for the World Toilet Day. This is the fifth year running that Plan International Kenya will be celebrating World Toilet Day. As usual we celebrate this day on the ground where villages have attained Open Defecation Free (ODF) status. The first (2007), second (2008) and third (2009) year we celebrated in Kilifi, the 4th (2010) in Homa Bay County. This year the celebrations will be in Siaya County.
World Toilet Day- what are you doing?
The 19h November is World Toilet Day The World Toilet Organization created World Toilet Day (WTD) to raise global awareness of the struggle 2.6 billion face every day without access to proper, clean sanitation.WTD also brings to the forefront the health, emotional and psychological consequences the poor endure as a result of inadequate sanitation.
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Let's cut the crap: Matt Damon talks shit for World Toilet Day
Next week is World Toilet Day. Why? No invention has saved more lives than a toilet. Yet billions still lack one. Actor Matt Damon shares a shocking statistic and invites you to join him in taking action. Watch the video clip
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Chief Macha receives Order of Distinguished Service from Zambian President for his work on sanitation
During a ceremony marking Zambia’s Independence Day, Chief Macha received the title Officer of the Order of Distinguished Service from Zambia’s President Michael Chilufya Sata for his work promoting Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and achieving 100% open defecation free status in his chiefdom in the Choma District in the Southern Province of Zambia. As a traditional leader, Chief Macha has used his status to advocate for improved sanitation with a multitude of stakeholders, from ministers of state to elected councilors, from fellow Chiefs to rural households. But Chief Macha stressed that ‘[t]his achievement is not mine, it belongs to the people of Macha, the people of Zambia.’
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Highlights of the WSSCC Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene
Short summary report from the WSSCC Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene which took place in Mumbai from the 9th to the 14th October 2011.
Date: 25 October 2011
Plan Indonesia wins top award for CLTS project
Plan Indonesia’s Grobogan-based Scaling-Up Project was singled out for the honour in the ‘Sanitation and Wastewater – Software’ category of this year’s International Water Association Project Innovation Awards, to be held in Malaysia 21st-24th November. The judging panel praised the project for its innovative approach to sanitation based on community participation and led by the community itself. Yohanna Pakpahan, Plan Indonesia’s Community-Led Total Sanitation project manager in Grobogan district, will represent Plan to receive the award.
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