At church, we had already twinned our toilets through Tear Fund. So our loos have a picture of our twin toilet, and the church gave money to Tear Fund for the work their partner churches to do provide toilets in areas that do not have them, and health education materials so that people know the health benefits of using them.
And now Hillsborough Tabernacle in Sheffield has twinned its taps, to provide clean running water to a community that has none. Washing your hands frequently, as per COVID guidance, is of course impossible if you have no clean water. And if you don't, of course, that is only one issue among many.
There are "clean hands" in the Bible (Job 17:9, Psalm 24:4 and Psalm 73:13). We thought about the second of those, and then watched a WHO video about the Tippy Tap. It needs someone to go to the running water and bring some back, but then it is an easy way to wash your hands, with soap tied to a string and the whole thing built out of sticks and a plastic water container, so easily built.
Here is the World Health Organisation's video about washing your hands with the Tippy Tap. And one about how to build one, from Water Aid.
And here is Tippy Tap's site, with manuals (in many languages) and resources about handwashing. The concept was described by its inventor Dr Jim Watt in a letter in the Journal of Tropical Pediatrics in 1988. Including that, there are five articles in PubMed that discuss the Tippy Tap.
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