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Our new online workshop for school classes explains why toilets are so important.

What does poverty have to do with toilets? GTO has developed an information poster that invites teachers throughout Germany to bring the topic of ‘toilets’ into schools.

We are delighted that so many people took part in the first webinar as part of the ‘Toiletten machen Schule’ competition, which took place on 21 February 2024. We gave tips and showed tricks on how to make sustainable improvements to school toilets.

What does gender equality have to do with toilets? The GTO has developed an information poster that invites teachers nationwide to bring the topic of toilets into the classroom.

Together with the Institute for Hygiene and Public Health (IHPH) at the University of Bonn, we published the study ‘Toiletten machen Schule®’ at a press conference. It provides an insight into the condition and use of sanitary facilities at Berlin schools.

What does climate change have to do with toilets? The GTO has developed an information poster that invites teachers across Germany to bring the topic of toilets into schools.

Why are toilets important? What does climate change have to do with toilets? The GTO publishes new explanatory films on sanitation for teachers and middle school students. Take a look!

At the beginning of this year, the second round of our school competition "Toilets Making the Grade" (TMG) started in Uganda and Pakistan.

10 years of human rights on water and sanitation ...

... then everyone has a safe toilet now, right? Unfortunately not, and access to clean drinking water is far from being globally secured. Not only worldwide, but also here in Germany these privileges are not accessible to everyone.

New teaching materials expand the spectrum of the education project "Toiletized World" and offer a variety of ideas for global education in the classroom.

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.

Press release on the award ceremony of the ‘Toiletten machen Schule’ competition 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?