HAVERFORDWEST’s Soroptimists are helping to flush away poverty, as their hard work to raise money for an international aid fund have come to fruition.
Members of Soroptimist International of Haverfordwest have been pleased to have photographic evidence that toilets in poor rural areas of the Ivory Coast, Pakistan and Uganda have been completed after members donated to the Toilet Twinning Fund.
The Toilet Twinning Fund has been supported by the club over the past two years, and aims to help the 2.3 million people in the world who don’t have somewhere safe and hygienic to go to the toilet.
Around a third of the world’s population have to use fields, streams, rivers, railway lines, canal banks, roadsides, plastic bags or disease-breeding buckets.
The lack of this facility makes women and girls a target for sexual attack as they go to the toilet in the open late at night.
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