India is a shit hole
According to Unicef, an estimated 620 million people defecate in public – generating around 65 million kilograms of shit each day
This is a major environmental health hazard
[it also puts women at serious risk of sexual assault if they are forced to relieve themselves in public]
Unicef has launched a campaign – http://www.poo2loo.com/ – featuring animated stools to encourage people to use a toilet when they need to go
Many folk, however, have . . .
no choice in the matter – being too poor to afford a toilet
Raising public awareness of the health hazards of public defecation is a start but of limited value if there aren’t any toilets for people to use!
If the Indian authorities really gave a shit about public defecation, they could perhaps build more public toilets for the convenience of their citizens and provide grants and/or cheap loans to enable the poorest in society to build a toilet in their homes ?
Hhmm, Take the Poo to the Loo‘s target audience in terms of raising public awareness about the issue of public defaction seems to be kids rather than adults (a case of starting at the bottom and working up?)
