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WTO will be holding the World Toilet Summit (WTS) in Pakistan in collaboration with SEED Ventures

Thursday, 15 April 2021, 3:12 pm | Documentary New Zealand Trust The Documentary New Zealand Trust presents THE DOC EDGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2021 (DOC EDGE) 3 June – 11 July 2021 The 16th annual Doc Edge Festival kicks off its first fusion edition in-theatres (Auckland and Wellington) and online nationwide ... More >> Tuesday, 19 May 2020, 8:23 am | Documentary New Zealand Trust Mr Toilet’s Jack Sim, the world’s #2 man on a mission to clean up the world. Credit: Jim Orca The Documentary New Zealand Trust presents The Documentary Edge International Film Festival 2020 (DOC EDG...

Download 11.02 MB Ipswich was a Gothic little town haunted by many mysteries and has long attracted ghost stories of its haunted past. But what is it that makes it so haunted? What are the stories that have helped to give it that status? Jack Sim is a historian who runs tours sharing with the public some of the spooky history of Ipswich, as well as the Goodna Cemetery, which is also one of the oldest in the state. He shared with Weekends presenter Kate O'Toole some of the stories that make Ipswich's ghost history so fascinating. Duration: 24min 4sec

The Straits Times 'Mr Toilet' Jack Sim now wants to solve poverty as he counts down to his 'last day' World Toilet Organisation founder Jack Sim is now devoting his energies to the larger agenda of global poverty.PHOTO: LATRINE DREAMS PRODUCTIONS New: Gift this subscriber-only story to your friends and family https://str.sg/JaAQ They can read the article in full after signing up for a free account. Share link: Or share via: Sign up or log in to read this article in full Sign up All done! This article is now fully available for you Read now

  Having grown up in a kampong in the 1950s, Sim knows these dangers first-hand. “We didn’t have a toilet in the house, but a bucket system in the outhouse; there were a lot of incidents of typhoid fever, cholera and intestinal worms.”  Around one billion people still face the indignity of defecating in the open today, and diarrhoeal diseases—a direct consequence of poor sanitation—kill more children every year than Aids, malaria and measles combined.  Through WTO’s advocacy work, revolutions in sanitation have begun taking place all over the world over the past two decades. In...