The burden placed on girls and women by a lack of toilet facilities.
2008 is the International Year of Sanitation but 2.6 billion people worldwide have nowhere to go to the loo – one of the shocking statistics exposed in a new book co-authored by Maggie Black. Fittingly called ‘The Last Taboo', it broaches the topic of excrement and the problem it poses especially for girls in the developing world, who are often kept from going to school due to a lack of proper facilities. Jane talks to Maggie about the problem and to Lydia Zigomo, Head of the East Africa Region for WaterAid about how this daily dilemma should be resolved.
‘The Last Taboo’ by Maggie Black and Ben Fawcett is published by Earthscan, ISBN: 978-1-84407-543-0.
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