They are pledging US$42 millions dollars in grants to reinvent the toilet, giving the 2.6 billion people in Africa who don't have access to a WC, a safe place to go to.
Only a fraction of Africans, even in large cities, are "connected to sewers with a flush toilet."
"In cities, people use 'flying toilets,'" its director of water, sanitation and hygiene programs, Frank Rijsberman explained.
"They go on a plastic bag and then throw it in the street, which is not only gross but kids walk around and play, and come into contact with the poop and can develop chronic diarrhea, which kills more children under the age of five than HIV/AIDS and malaria."
After the PC, now for the WC.
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