Time to come clean.
“Manila will pilot the One Million Clean Toilets Movement in partnership with Unilever, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Philippine Public Health Associations, and Pilipinas Shell,” reports Macon Ramos-Araneta in Manila Standard Today.
The project hopes to curb the incidence of “open defacators” (or people who use public spaces as their “toilet”), thereby stamping out the threat of diseases like diarrhea and the prevalence of intestinal worms.
In the November 5 media media briefing at Victoria Patio in Intramuros, UNICEF representatives said “about one million pledges will be gathered from private households to maintain their own clean, safe and hygienic bathrooms to highlight World Toilet Day in November 2014.”
Meanwhile, Uniliver’s Domex will also deputize a team of “Germ Busters” and train them in the proper servicing of restrooms. These “Germ Busters” will most likely becity service employees, NLEX and SLEX Shell gas station service staff, as well as selected school and hospital sanitation officers.
Other localities are also being eyed for the project.
Note: Pledges to support the One Million Clean Toilets Movement via the Domex Facebook page will help grow a global fund to help improve access to basic sanitation elsewhere with Domex donating PHP5 to UNICEF’s Sanitation Program for every pledge received.
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