Post by OtishOtish on Mar 28, 2013 4:58:32 GMT 3
Some time ago while on a flight from Nairobi I met a foreigner who has been labouring to build cheap, efficient toilets in Kenya. I was astonished at the figures he produced for how much shite was costing us. But I later checked, and it was hard to argue with the figures. (I have previously posted some of them on Jukwaa but cannot readily recall the title of the thread)
Going by the following report we now have new figures. (I have yet to confirm them from other sources, but they seem credible enough.)
www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-113565/lack-latrines-costs-kenya-sh27-billion-every-year
By way of comparison, the Thika "Superhighway" cost approximately only one year's worth of shite. And the last figures I saw for the provision of an adequate number of "permanent" facilities was just below $100 million.
I have also previously written about food. Not just the famine stuff, with starving people covered with flies showing up on TV, but even more basic things: the number of Kenyan children whose physical growth and brain-development get stunted due to inadequate nutrition is astonishing.
Proper food, decent housing and education, adequate health facilities, basic security .... these are the things I imagine are (or should be) of concern to the majority of Kenyans, many of whom face all sorts of daily struggles. But I suppose they aren't as exciting as "our man into the big chair!"
So what were we discussing ...? Ah yes ... Back to it, then. But be sure to do it where it belongs and to wash your hands afterward.
Going by the following report we now have new figures. (I have yet to confirm them from other sources, but they seem credible enough.)
www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-113565/lack-latrines-costs-kenya-sh27-billion-every-year
By way of comparison, the Thika "Superhighway" cost approximately only one year's worth of shite. And the last figures I saw for the provision of an adequate number of "permanent" facilities was just below $100 million.
I have also previously written about food. Not just the famine stuff, with starving people covered with flies showing up on TV, but even more basic things: the number of Kenyan children whose physical growth and brain-development get stunted due to inadequate nutrition is astonishing.
Proper food, decent housing and education, adequate health facilities, basic security .... these are the things I imagine are (or should be) of concern to the majority of Kenyans, many of whom face all sorts of daily struggles. But I suppose they aren't as exciting as "our man into the big chair!"
So what were we discussing ...? Ah yes ... Back to it, then. But be sure to do it where it belongs and to wash your hands afterward.
