World
Toilet Day
Thursday
19th Nov
Regular
supporters of Village Rwanda UK will know that our big project this year has
been supporting GiFo (an NGO in Rwanda’s Gihombo Sector) to build a
purpose-built children’s centre building to house a nursery school, health
centre and family services. Gihombo is a very remote rural area where we have
been supporting the establishment of the nursery school in a borrowed church
building over the last 3 years. You can see much more information about all of
this work to date in other entries of this blog.
The new
children’s centre, however, has extremely primitive latrines, as you can see in
the photo… It looks lovely but, trust me, you don’t want to see inside. But it
is all they have for 60 children and several adults.
To donate: Either click on
to contribute through Paypal, or make online payment to Village Rwanda UK, The Cooperative Bank, Sort code 08-92-99, Account number 65765678, putting “World Toilet Day” as your payment reference.
to contribute through Paypal, or make online payment to Village Rwanda UK, The Cooperative Bank, Sort code 08-92-99, Account number 65765678, putting “World Toilet Day” as your payment reference.
We are a registered
UK charity, number: 1162004
If you are a
UK taxpayer, please let us know whether you would be happy for this to be a
GiftAid contribution.
You can see a photo of the inside of a pit latrine on my Facebook page. That photo shows a pit latrine with a concrete floor. Many do not and the occupant crouches on tree trunks put across the hole. These tree trunks soon rot, sometimes resulting in tragic accidents. There is no habit of hand washing because of the scarcity of clean
ReplyDeletewater. This is what we want to change. Our main concern now is sanitation and health.