Fund-raisers across the UK and USA have been developing new ways of getting money out of the public – via the toilet!

In the USA, Relay for Life, painted some toilets bright purple and used them to inform the public and raise funds for the American Cancer Society.  What happens is that the toilet turns up (along with its minder) outside your house or place of work. To get rid of it you have to made a $10 donation which you place in the toilet bowl and the toilet then ‘flushes’ itself out of your vicinity. If you give it a larger donation, it will relocate to an address of you choice and loiter there instead! The toilet is accompanied by a purple T-shirt wearing Relay For Life volunteer who then visits the office or knocks on the door you’ve selected and tells the recipient ‘you’ve been flushed’!

In the UK, CORD established a Toilet Twinning campaign that raises funds to build toilets in Burundi.

So far nearly 900 latrines, each for a family of six, have been built meaning that more than 5,000 individuals now have a hygienic and private toilet. The donor gets a framed certificate to hang in their own toilet, which gives the number of the latrine they twinned with, and the grid reference in Burundi so that it can be found on a map. Toilet twinning costs £60 and is proving to be a popular option with small companies that want to support a charity that is achieving practical change for the world’s poorest people.

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