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In India...
Close to 640 million people do not have access to toilets followed by Indonesia (58 million), China (50 million), Ethiopia (49 million), Pakistan (48 million) and Nigeria (33 million)
18 percent of urban India still defecates in open while the percentage of rural India is as high as 69 percent.
At least 44 percent of the population defecates in the open only in South Asia.
Unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene claim the lives of an estimated 1.5 million children under the age of five each year.
This also underlines that open defecation leads to deadly diarrhoea and other intestinal diseases which kills hundreds of thousands of people worldwide every year.
Without access to latrines, many women and girls relieve themselves only under the cover of darkness. Night-time trips to fields or roadsides put them at risk of physical attack and sexual violence.
Shocked ? So are we! But gaping at facts alone is not going to solve the sanitation crisis in India.
We have to join hands and eradicate the issue. You can donate for a cause and make a loan to a person in need to build toilet facilities.
