Toilet Twinning is a sanitation fundraising initiative established in 2010 as a collaboration between Christian Outreach for Relief and Development (Cord) and Tearfund, now operated by Tearfund as a standalone charitable program. It invites people to twin their own toilet with a latrine built in a poor community, and participants receive a certificate carrying a photo, location and GPS coordinates of the specific latrine their donation funded. The initiative mobilizes funding for clean water access and proper sanitation infrastructure alongside hygiene education, adapting its approach by context: in stable communities it emphasizes locally driven water and sanitation programs with hygiene education, while in conflict zones lacking infrastructure it funds direct construction of toilets and water systems. By 2013 the program had expanded its work to 26 countries across multiple continents.
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Sponsoring Body Target Population Health GoalEnable people in the poorest nations to have clean water and a proper toilet, and to learn about hygiene 1 Geographic Scope Program status (class) Target Population Classification
Program KindSanitation or Water Program 1 Connections
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1. Toilet Twinning, Wikipedia
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It was formed in 2010
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now is solely a charity under Tearfund
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latrines in poor communities
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enable people in the poorest nations to have clean water and a proper toilet, and to learn about hygiene
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field operations delivered water and sanitation programmes in 26 countries
- Wikipedia 'Toilet Twinning': present-tense description, 'now is solely a charity under Tearfund'; checked 2026-09-27.
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enable people in the poorest nations to have clean water and a proper toilet, and to learn about hygiene
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Toilet Twinning is a sanitation fundraising initiative established in 2010 as a collaboration between Christian Outreach for Relief and Development (Cord) and Tearfund, now operated by Tearfund as a standalone charitable program.
Associated With: Hygiene and Sanitation, Text of the cited page
Toilet Twinning is an initiative which invites people to "twin" their own toilet with latrines in poor communities (an analogy with the twin towns and sister cities movement).
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