Tearfund’s Toilet Twinning campaign was the star of the evening taking the coveted People’s Choice Award and the Best Online Campaign at the awards ceremony on Saturday evening.
The organisation told Premier that it was “absolutely incredible to win”.
Toilet Twinning CEO Lorraine Kingsley said: “We’re just all about the fact that 2.3 billion people in the world don’t have a loo and to win this award means that people love the fact that for £60 they can donate some money and they can change the lives of people living in a poor community forever.
“To me that’s just incredible that people would be that generous and would want to do something that expresses their faith and says we’re for people that are living in poverty and we believe that God is a God of justice and he believes that people in poverty shouldn’t be in poverty and we’ll do all we can to end generational poverty through Toilet Twinning.”
The charity initiative also received the prize of an AppKettle WiFi Smart Kettle at the event held in The Brewery in London.
Toilet Twinning was one of 17 award winners made up of churches, Christian community organisations and individuals at the 11th Premier Digital Awards ceremony, organised by Premier, hosted by gospel artist FaithChild and Premier presenter Maria Rodrigues.
Kevin Bennett, Chief Operations Officer at Premier, explained the significance of the awards and said: “The awards programme was established in 2007 to encourage more Christians to…
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