In Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, greedy land-grabbing corporations have forcefully evicted multitudes of slum dwellers with bulldozers and teargas. Made homeless overnight, with literally the shirts on their back as their only belongings, the people had to live in makeshift tents away from the city.
Some kind organisations built houses for the people in village of Oudong. However, their toilet affair was an urgent run into the bushes.
Eunice hatched the idea to build a toilet for every home in the village…
Together with the kind donation by Harold La and the partnership of Sihanouk Hospital Centre of Hope, Habitat for Humanity, and the World Toilet Organization, the project was completed.
At the Opening Ceremony, a lady expressed how she used to fear for her children, for they often encounter snakes while “doing their thing” in the bushes.
This project is especially important for the girls in the village. Not only is doing it in the bushes embarrassing for them; it even puts the girls at risk of kidnaps and molestations,
A toilet for each family provides safety and helps to prevent the spread of diseases. We seized the opportunity to reinforce the importance of hygiene.
For just USD100-- 1.5m deep septic tank, cement base, toilet bowl, tiled floor and tin metal walls! We were so excited that it inspired a little ditty we sang the whole day:
Poo with dignity, pee with pride,
No more urgent runs, and trying to hide,
No more looking out for crawling snakes,
We've got toilets now, for goodness sake!
This project taught us a lesson in life, "When you encounter problems, you've just got to push hard and force your way through"... This applies to life's problems, and *ahem* bowel problems as well!
We were FLUSHED with enthusiasm, over a CRAPPY idea, where every cent went to WASTE!!
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