Sulabh International Museum of Toilets
In a quiet courtyard in the suburbs of New Delhi, inside a low-slung concrete building, the assistant curator and guides of Sulabh International Museum of Toilets eagerly awaits for visitors. The museum is small, with just one long room, but it�s possibly the world�s only toilet museum, and it�s location in the Indian capital is all the more important.
Hygiene and sanitation is one of India�s most pressing issues. An astonishing 60% of the country�s 1.2 billion people defecate in the open because they do not have access to safe and private toilets. The numbers were probably worse in 1970 when Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, a humanitarian and social worker, introduced pay-to-use public toilets in a small village in Patna, Bihar. At first the people laughed at his idea, but now over 15 million people across the country use public toilets constructed by Sulabh International, a non-profit he founded.
Photo credit: www.sulabhtoiletmuseum.org
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