Description
There is no data collected in Hungary regarding the total lack of sanitation. According to our experience this problem that has been targeted neither by policy makers, nor by local administrators nor by civil organizatons concerns thousands of people. The living conditions of Roma is significantly worse than the majority's so the problem affect them more seriously. Our goal is to call the attention that there are citizens in Hungary living even without outdoor toilets. We want to inform about the consequesnces not only the relevant political and professional stakeholders, but the wider public as well. We'd like to show how resources of the communities can be mobilized to change this. We collect donations that we will used to finance local toilet constructions for dozens of families according to the plans of the local stakeholders' roundtables. These local actions decrease biases and hatespeach locally. The program consist of an online information and donation campaign togehter with a local toilet construction activity accompained by a public toilet building campaign in the heart of Budapest joining to the International World Toilet Day.
Summary of project results
The project joined the 'World Toilets Day' initiative of the UN. The aim of this day is to raise awareness about the circumstances that people without access to toilets live in all across the world. There was a related event in Budapest at Blaha Lujza Tér. The Hungarian media was seriously interested in this cause, and as a consequence more than one million people were reached country-wise. The aim was to draw attention to the lack of basic sanitation for 500.000 people in Hungary. There are tens of thousands of families living in a house without indoor or outdoor toilets. Another goal was to build 30 indoor toilets in Porcsalma, where Partners Hungary Foundation previously carried out a health mediation project and within the framework of which they built 85 outdoor toilets for the local roma community in 2014. To reach this goal there was a successful fundraising campaign. All of the toilets were built in April.
Summary of bilateral results