Will this catch on?
There’s no end to the clever ways charities have of persuading us all to give more help to developing countries. You can give a goat, support a village, send your computer. But how about giving your lavatory? Seriously – Eye thinks this is a great idea to improve desperately needed sanitation in African countries. You don’t actually give away your loo of course, but you twin your home ‘facility’ with a new one in Burundi, which you sponsor.

Some male Friends in Coventry seem to have been the impetus for this unique idea. It started out as a straightforward fund to improve sanitation in Burundi, by a local charity called Cord. Coventry Meeting saw the appeal leaflets but were rather underwhelmed by them. ‘Somehow they did not excite interest,’ says William Waddilove of Coventry Meeting.

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