{"id":4729,"date":"2023-04-30T10:05:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T09:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/?page_id=4729"},"modified":"2023-04-30T10:05:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T09:05:09","slug":"toilet-twinned-town-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/toilet-twinned-town-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Toilet Twinned Town 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SI Tunbridge Wells aimed to become a Toilet Twinned Town as part of our work to promote gender equality. After much hard work this was achieved in November 2022.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4731 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/0c19a82c-50ce-4c5d-93a2-c598e54111f1-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/0c19a82c-50ce-4c5d-93a2-c598e54111f1-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/0c19a82c-50ce-4c5d-93a2-c598e54111f1.jpg 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Without toilets and clean water people in rural areas with few facilities become sick through sanitation-related disease. Illness means they cannot work or farm so they earn less or grow less food. Children, particularly girls, miss school as they are either sick or busy collecting water. Girls can drop out of school permanently when they start their period if they have no access to a toilet or changing room. Parents fall into debt when they have to devote their small income to buy medicine or food. Women and girls risk being attacked by men or bitten by snakes going to the toilet in the open, especially at night. Water and sanitation projects like this one promoted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toilettwinning.org\">toilettwinning.org<\/a> enable families to build a toilet, access clean water and learn basic hygiene principles<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">To fund toilet twinning SI Tunbridge Wells initiated a system of collecting and recycling aluminium cans to be turned into cash to buy toilets. As well as club members collecting cans, the local Council installed dedicated collection bins in local parks, which a team of club members regularly visited to empty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4751\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4751\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4751\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/272964494_1088924458611244_5699616498871253653_n-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/272964494_1088924458611244_5699616498871253653_n-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/272964494_1088924458611244_5699616498871253653_n.jpg 910w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caroline Auckland and Louise Taylor on &#8216;can run&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4732\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4732\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4732\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/284491510_1161325574704465_3408901746397625405_n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/284491510_1161325574704465_3408901746397625405_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/284491510_1161325574704465_3408901746397625405_n.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/284491510_1161325574704465_3408901746397625405_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Club member Mary Salmon at recycling centre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The club also held a sponsored walk to help raise money to fund more toilets.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4749\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4749\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4749\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/273360943_1088928371944186_413497717290068421_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/273360943_1088928371944186_413497717290068421_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/273360943_1088928371944186_413497717290068421_n.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean Meadows and Angela McPherson at start of sponsored walk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Club member Louise Taylor constructed a toilet from aluminium cans, which was taken to Friends of the Earth, \u00a0IWD or other events held locally where we promoted the toilet twinning project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4754 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-30-at-09.55.33-236x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-30-at-09.55.33-236x300.png 236w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-30-at-09.55.33.png 698w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4736\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4736 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/b4e760d5-23fc-4c7f-9fe0-5725831f5fa5-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/b4e760d5-23fc-4c7f-9fe0-5725831f5fa5-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/b4e760d5-23fc-4c7f-9fe0-5725831f5fa5.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angela Mcpherson, Louise Taylor and Mary Salmon at local Friends of the Earth event with our &#8216;can&#8217; toilet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In all, twenty toilets were funded, and toilet twinning certificates were presented to businesses and dignitaries in Tunbridge Wells so that toilet twinning could be promoted around our town.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4738\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4738\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4738 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_3182-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_3182-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/tunbridge-wells\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_3182.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean Meadows presenting toilet twinning certificate to local councillor Justine Rutland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SI Tunbridge Wells aimed to become a Toilet Twinned Town as part of our work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":845,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4729","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Toilet Twinned Town 2022 | SI Tunbridge Wells &amp; 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