Unilever To Launch Toilet Academy
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Business
Unilever is pioneering an innovative approach to the provision of sanitation, through its continued partnership with the World Toilet Organization, to launch the world's firstDomestos Toilet Academy in Vietnam
This academy will provide the business skills and training necessary for local entrepreneurs to source and supply latrines to their local communities - providing jobs and a boost to the economy, and at the same time promoting the importance of safe and hygienic sanitation. The Toilet Academy programme aims to be a sustainable and long-term solution to sanitation that benefits local society and helps stimulate local economy.
Dr Nguyen Thi Kim Tien, Minister of Health Vietnam said: "Currently, many countries, including Vietnam, are still facing lots of difficulties and challenges. Challenges of globalization as well as environmental pollution, population growth and urbanization have impacted the sanitation crisis. In Vietnam, the Government has put strong emphasis on stimulating and promoting the "Patriotic Hygiene Movement" to mobilize all management agencies, organizations at all levels and entire nation to join hands in improving hygiene and sanitation as this is essential in the current context."
Source: The Guardian
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