{"id":127661,"date":"2021-09-14T11:23:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T18:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/mr-jack-sim-founder-world-toilet-organization-ending-the-global-sanitation-crisis"},"modified":"2021-09-14T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T18:23:07","slug":"mr-jack-sim-founder-world-toilet-organization-ending-the-global-sanitation-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/mr-jack-sim-founder-world-toilet-organization-ending-the-global-sanitation-crisis","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Jack Sim \u2014 Founder, World Toilet Organization \u2014 Ending The Global Sanitation Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DjOzPSY3gig?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ending the global sanitation crisis \u2014 jack sim, founder world toilet organization.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Around 2 billion people worldwide still lack access to the basic tools of improved sanitation (toilets and latrines). One billion people still have to defecate in the open, and at least 10% of the world\u2019s population is thought to consume food irrigated by raw wastewater. An estimated 800,000 children, younger than 5 years of age, perish from diarrhea each year, including conditions related to cholera, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid and polio.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jack Sim is the Founder of the World Toilet Organization (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtoilet.org\/),\">https:\/\/www.worldtoilet.org\/),<\/a> an organization established with the aim to break the taboo around toilets and this global sanitation crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sim is also the founder of the Restroom Association of Singapore, the World Toilet Day initiative, and Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) Hub.<\/p>\n<p>In 2,001 for \u201ccreating good will and bringing the subject into the open\u201d and \u201cmobilizing national support in providing on-the-ground expertise\u201d, Mr. Sim received the Schwab Foundation award for Social Entrepreneur of the Year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/mr-jack-sim-founder-world-toilet-organization-ending-the-global-sanitation-crisis\">Continue reading \u201cMr. Jack Sim \u2014 Founder, World Toilet Organization \u2014 Ending The Global Sanitation Crisis\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ending the global sanitation crisis \u2014 jack sim, founder world toilet organization. Around 2 billion people worldwide still lack access to the basic tools of improved sanitation (toilets and latrines). One billion people still have to defecate in the open, and at least 10% of the world\u2019s population is thought to consume food irrigated by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}