Campaign: Potty Papers
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Sanitation is a means to health and dignity.
Worldwide, 2.6 billion people, half the developing world’s population, lack access to improved sanitation. Without proper waste disposal, water sources above and below ground become contaminated and unsafe.

Unsafe water leads to severe outbreaks of diarrhoeal diseases, some of the most deadly diseases for children in the developing world. Every year, some 1.8 million children die as a result of unclean water and poor sanitation.

There is hope.
With sanitation, including basic pit latrines, the overall health of a community is improved. An improvement in sanitation leads to a more than 30% reduction in child mortality. Sanitation also leads to an increase in school and work attendance, which increases opportunity for success.

You can get involved.
Through your participation in the Potty Papers campaign, you will educate others about the necessity of sanitation. Simply post Potty Papers in the bathrooms of your work, church, club or school, and watch people become encouraged to join the fight for sanitation. By promoting Lifewater’s sanitation programs, you will help others achieve the blessings of health and dignity.

Instructions
The purpose of the Potty Papers campaign is to increase awareness about the importance of proper sanitation to the health of people around the world. By posting Potty Papers on bathroom walls or on the back of stall doors, you will help your friends, company, church, school, or family become more aware about the necessity of sanitation. Potty Papers will also encourage them to get involved in the effort to help people learn ways to avoid water-related diseases.

Step by Step:
1. Decide where you want to post the Potty Papers. You can post them at your workplace, school, club, home, church, youth group, or anywhere else that you want to see awareness raised. 

2. To get your Potty Papers, just let us know where to send them and how many.

3. Get to posting!

4. Make the campaign more effective by presenting it in an email, meeting agenda item, newsletter, or lunchtime discussion to the people you’re involving. (This campaign can also be done alongside the Where Would You Go? Campaign.)

5. When you have finished with the campaign, complete an Evaluation Form and return it to us so that we can hear about your experience and continue to find better ways to help you get involved. Be sure to tell us about the responses you received from others.  
 
6. If you have any questions or something to share, please contact Sada at .