ABOUT WORLD TOILET ORGANIZATION

The World Toilet Organization (WTO) is the leading global voice for sanitation – a non-profit working towards a world with clean, safe toilets and sanitation for everyone, everywhere, at all times. The charity was founded by Jack Sim in Singapore on the 19th November 2001. 

Since its inception, WTO has brought together key players from governments, academia, civil society, multilateral agencies and the private sector to explore innovative and sustainable solutions to end the global sanitation crisis.

WTO has commemorated its founding day as World Toilet Day since 2001 and in 2013 the United Nations adopted the 19th of November as UN World Toilet Day. WTO also achieved special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in the same year.

VISION

“To see a world with a clean, safe toilet and sanitation for everyone, everywhere at all times.”

MISSION

WTO’s mission is to continue to promote the global sanitation movement through collaborative action that inspires and drives demand for sanitation and provides innovative solutions to achieve sustainable sanitation for all.
Key pillars of WTO’s work:

1. Advocate to change policy on sanitation. Through its global advocacy efforts, WTO has made great strides in breaking the taboo associated with sanitation. The cornerstones of its advocacy work include the annual World Toilet Summit, World Toilet Day and Urgent Run. 
2. Educate to change mind-sets on sanitation. WTO collaborates with grassroots organisations and schools to increase awareness of the importance of sanitation in local communities. It does this via public exhibition roadshows and school sanitation and hygiene promotion programmes.
3. Build to develop sanitation infrastructure and capacity. WTO builds toilet infrastructure in various schools and communities in several developing countries. It does this directly for example through the Rainbow Toilet Initiative in China or via its partners like in the Floating Community Toilet project in Cambodia.
4. Empower to bring about long term social change on sanitation. WTO takes a market-based approach that empowers communities to solve their own sanitation challenges. This is done via the World Toilet College training model which builds capacity for sanitation workers and professionals and also via its social enterprise model, SaniShop.

Fundraising Events

GIVING WEEK SINGAPORE 2019

Sundown With Love 2018

Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore 2016