Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Sweden’s most beautiful toilets – Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

Among the ten fantasy toilets took Miss Li’s creations victory. She dressed the toilet in a pink dress, sunglasses and hat – with a toarulle neatly in the “knee”. The design received more than half of the votes in an SMS vote.

– I am so incredibly happy and grateful to all those involved in the campaign and would like to take this opportunity to thank those who voted for my toilet. They have now made it possible for more people having access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene education, says Miss Li.

The toilets were auctioned additionally on eBay. Together with SMS voting inbringades total of 49 000 to the campaign I Love Toa. It is an initiative of the organization WaterAid, to raise money for their work to more people in the world to defecate in an orderly manner.

Two and a half billion people do not have access to proper sanitation and more than 1400 children die every day from diarrheal diseases caused by poor sanitation conditions, according to WaterAid.

In second place was the artist and choir director Gabriel Forss “united business with pleasure” in his creations – a toilet with music stands on its back board and a microphone stand into the bowl. Third was the illustrator Jenny Ekstrom with a graphically patterned toilet.

Scroll on the sweep to see all creations!

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