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World Toilet Organisation gets Rockefeller grant |
 The Rockefeller Foundation of New York has awarded a Networks for Urban Innovation grant of US $140,150 (103,000 euros) to the World Toilet Organisation (WTO) to aid it in its mission to help solve the sanitation problems of the world's poor.
Based in Singapore, the non-profit WTO has been raising awareness about the health risks of living without proper sanitation since 2001. Rather than just providing toilets, it aims to go further in its work because it has found that toilets donated through the traditional charity model often go unused by the communities for whom they are intended, or they fall into disrepair.
“The donor model doesn’t work on a large scale,” said Jack Sim,
founder of the WTO. “It lacks the sustainability and continuity that comes from mobilising a community to produce, market, sell, distribute and maintain their own sanitation products.”
The Rockefeller Foundation fosters innovative solutions to many of
the world's most pressing challenges, affirming its mission, since 1913, to
“promote the well-being” of humanity.
www.worldtoilet.org
www.rockefellerfoundation.org
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