#doDifferent - One Toilet at a Time
Every day, students from more than 3,000 schools in South Africa risk slipping into pit toilets. Other children from at least 253 schools lack water and another 248 schools have no access to sanitation at all. These drastically impacts pupils and their capacity to maintain sanitary standards. This issue is further exacerbated by COVID-19, which requires extremely high hygiene standards in order to avoid rapid transmission.
Baby Soft, a well-known and trusted toilet tissue brand is collaborating with WaterAid on their Toilets Change Lives project. This project aims to #doDifferent by alleviating the impact of a shortage of clean water, as well as give answers to the urgent need for schools to have access to these fundamental human requirements for learning and development. Through this collaboration, they will strive to provide clean water, respectable toilets, and appropriate hygiene facilities to schools in Limpopo, where around 80% of schools still use pit toilets.
Baby Soft and WaterAid began working together in 2018. They collaborated with Tsogang Water during the first phase of the initiative, to improve hygiene and sanitation services at 5 schools. This directly improved the lives of 1,200 students and 42 educators. Since then, they have begun the building and refurbishment of 4 toilet blocks in four different schools, impacting a total of 880 students. They have also constructed 22 concrete hand-washing facilities in five other schools.
Their continued efforts have made it simpler for students and teachers to stay healthy and miss fewer school days due to sickness.
Over the next three years, they are aiming to construct toilets and enhance sanitation access for over 8,500 students and educators in ten schools, as well as more than 17,000 individuals in the surrounding community.
You can also get involved and help Baby Soft and WaterAid #doDifferent. For every select pack of Baby Soft toilet paper you buy, the company will donate R4 to WaterAid to help build toilets in 10 schools.
You’re not just buying toilet paper, you’re changing lives — one toilet at a time.
