Public Sanitary Project – PSP004/FSG

Adequate sanitation and bathing facilities are basic needs that guarantee and promote people's health, especially in developing countries. The importance of sanitation and toilets is in helping to reduce the spread of disease. Sanitation systems aim to protect health by providing and promoting a clean environment.

Developing countries face challenges in accessing sanitation and hygiene services. Several studies claim that hundreds of millions of people do not have access to clean and adequate drinking water and that more than a million deaths are the result of diseases transmitted by dirty water, poor sanitation and poor hygiene. Access to soap is a hygiene importance and often a challenge in its availability to developing countries.

The World Bank has found that the effects of poor hygiene result in various other environmental and health problems, such as childhood stunting, diseases such as parasitic infections, diarrhea, typhoid fever, and leptospirosis.

It is with this in mind that the Sérgio Gago Foundation developed the “Public Toilets” project, which consists of building open access public toilets in order to guarantee greater access to hygiene, health and environmental protection.