A super-sized toilet that’s edible! Yuck? Er, no actually – it is a cake that weighs nearly 700 kg. It is part of an awareness drive organized in Delhi by Sulabh International, an NGO responsible for building public toilets in almost every Indian state.
The three-day event that began on Wednesday over a thousand school children take part in the pledge, ‘Toilet For All by 2019’.
“The event has been organised to create awareness about the importance of toilets in keeping with the ‘Swachch Bharat’ campaign of the Narendra Modi government. PM has taken up the cause to make India clean and to build toilets for all so that India could be free from open defecation. Certainly the message has created a ripple effect,” says Sulabh International founder Brindeshwar Pathak told Press Trust of India.
‘World Toilet Day,’ is marked on November 19 every year, is an initiative to raise awareness of the need for clean sanitation.
About 35% of the world, or 2.5 billion people, are estimated to not have access to toilets according to the World Toilet Organization 2013 Annual Report. According to the United Nations 14%, or 1 billion people, regularly defecate in the open air.
All we can say is that the cake in the middle of Delhi – shaped like a toilet – sure was a capital idea in attracting attention and raising awareness.
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