With two new teaching materials, our education project "Toiletized World" expands its pedagogical-didactic repertoire. Teachers in schools throughout Germany are called upon to implement materials which deal with sanitation in their teaching classrooms and thus make a contribution to the learning of global development.
With a pilot project in the second half of 2019, the German Toilet Organization e. V. (GTO) has successfully expanded the impact of its development education work for the first time by using multipliers. Teachers at schools and employees of supply and disposal companies are called upon to apply the knowledge they have learned in their work.
In collaboration with GIZ Uganda team of the global project “Sanitation for Millions” (S4M), the GTO celebrated the official launch of the second edition of the school competition “Toilets Making the Grade”. Until March 2020, Kampala’s schools are called upon to develop and implement their own concepts for keeping school toilets clean.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) 4.2 billion people worldwide have no access to safe sanitation. Berlin school students publicly demonstrated on the occasion of World Toilet Day 2019.
The Sustainable Services Initiative developed a discussion paper on strengthening sanitation and hygiene in the WASH systems conceptual framework.
Pressemitteilung zur Preisverleihung des „Toiletten machen Schule”-Wettbewerbs 2018/19
The German school competition “Toiletten machen Schule” is reaching the final round. On the 8th of May, the jury of experts finally chose the three winning schools.
2.1 billion people worldwide have no access to safe drinking water. Berlin school children demonstrated against the global water crisis on the occasion of World Water Day 2019.
Parliamentary Breakfast at the German Bundestag: How can politics contribute to improving the sanitary situation at schools – nationally and internationally?
