1. Toilet talk!
with
Thorsten Kiefer
Founder & CEO, WASH United

2. Why sanitation and hygiene?

3. Background
• 2.5 billion lack access to adequate sanitation.
• Hand-washing with soap not widely and
consistently practiced.
• Globally, diarrhea 2nd biggest killer of children
under 5 years of age.
• In Sub-Saharan Africa, diarrhea kills more children
than malaria, measles and HIV/AIDS – combined.

5. WASH is a cross-cutting issue
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Education
Nutrition
Gender equality
HIV/AIDS
Violence against women
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6. WASH United`s approach

7. WASH United uses
fun,
interactive games,
positive communication
and superstar role models
to change mindsets & behaviours
around sanitation and hygiene.

8. Key activities:
• High-level public awareness
campaigns.
• WASH trainings in schools and youth
sport teams, implemented through local
partners.

9. Elements of training curricula

10. Training of Teachers
(ToT)

11. Games
World Toilet Cup
Cricket: „ Worldpoo Cup
every Toilet
needs a loo!“
Cricket

12. Bowl out Diarrhea

13. Bowl out Diarrhea

14. Clean Hands Carrom

15. WASH Jigsaw
Germ Pyramid

16. Hand-washing
Challenge

17. TippyTap
Competition

18. Complementary educational
materials

19. Certificate and
WASH United
pledge
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20. Results since 2010
+ 100.000 children and youth trained
+ 1.000 teachers trained
+ 400 schools and youth sport clubs
through local partners.

21. Adjusting WASH United tools to
the needs of S4D organizations

22. Building bridges between sectors
• Linking the WASH & S4D sectors;
• Enable more S4D organizations to include
WASH trainings into their work;
• Affiliate membership streetfootballworld
network

23. The WASH World Cup
Harnessing the power of football to
promote sanitation and hygiene
in East Africa!
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Hosted by 9 local organisations,
7 of them Sport for Development
organisations
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Tournaments & trainings in 5 locations
across Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda

24. The WASH World Cup
Goals:
•Develop, test & refine replicable
football-based WASH curricula
specifically for the grassroots sport sector
•Reach around 8,000 children with
behaviour change interventions

25. Next Steps
for your organization towards working
on sanitation and hygiene

26. 1. Get in touch:
share your contact details
2. Stay informed:
sign up to our newsletter
3. Get involved & take action:
Partner with us in 2015 when our tools are
ready for distribution

27. Partners:
THANK YOU!