To mark World Toilet Day, SWIFT Consortium Learning and Communications Support Officer Emma Feeny posted a blog on Oxfam’s Policy & Practice website describing how the consortium is aiming to bridge the gap between emergency sanitation responses and long-term, sustainable solutions.
Perhaps it’s not polite to say so, but Oxfam has been into poo for some time. You could even call us poo experts, such is the respect in which our sanitation specialists are held among their peers (step forward Andy Bastable, recently nominated Humanitarian Hero of the Year).
Whether it is through supplying ‘peepoo bags‘ to enable urban survivors of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti to relieve themselves in areas where no latrines could be dug; or by installing…