| Public toilets in Sierra Leone | |
|---|---|
.jpg) A public toilet block at Holy Rosary Secondary School. Pujehun that served 450 female students and staff | |
| Language of toilets | |
| Local words | WC |
| Men's toilets | Men |
| Women's toilets | Women |
| Public toilet statistics | |
| Toilets per 100,000 people | ??? (2021) |
| Total toilets | ?? |
| Public toilet use | |
| Type | Western style sit toilet |
| Locations | ??? |
| Average cost | ??? |
| Often equipped with | ??? |
| Percent accessible | ??? |
| Date first modern public toilets | ??? |
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Public toilets in Sierra Leone are few, with the country having a general issue of lack of toilet access.
Public toilets
editWaterAid ranked the country as one of the ten worst in the world in 2016 for urban access to safe and private toilets.[1] On a per capita basis, WaterAid said in 2016 Sierra Leone was in the top ten for having the least number of safe and private toilets in urban areas.[1]
A not insignificant percentage of men and women from Sierra Leone and Liberia in refugee camps in the Forest Region of Guinea in 1999 believed sexually transmitted diseases could be contracted from using public toilets.[2]
Rotary District 9101 District Governor Sunny Akoupha set a goal in March 2022 of building over 1,000 new public toilets between then and 2027. District 1190, which includes parts of Cumbria, Lancashire, Brampton and Longtown, offered to assist the Mali based project. The first twelve toilets scheduled to be constructed were to be built in Bamako. Others were planned for other cities in Mali, and in Senegal, Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Ivory Coast.[3]
Regional and global situation impacting public toilets in Sierra Leone
editAround 2.5 billion people around the world in 2018 did not have access to adequate toilet facilities. Around 4.5 billion people lacked access to proper sanitation.[4] Public toilet access around the world is most acute in the Global South, with around 3.6 billion people, 40% of the world's total population, lacking access to any toilet facilities. 2.3 people in the the Global South do not have toilet facilities in their residence. Despite the fact that the United Nation made a declaration in 2010 that clean water and sanitation is a human right, little has been done in many places towards addressing this on a wider level.[5]
Public toilets, depending on their design, can be tools of social exclusion. The lack of single-sex women's toilets in developing countries makes it harder for women to participate in public life, in education and in the workplace.[6] Across Africa, open defecation had social consequences. These included loss of dignity and privacy. It also put women at risk of sexual violence.[7]
An issue in developing countries is toilet access in schools. Only 46% of schools in developing countries have them.[8] Many schools around the world in 2018 did not have toilets, with the problem particularly acute in parts of Africa and Asia. Only one in five primary schools on earth had a toilet and only one in eight secondary schools had public toilets.[4] In developing countries, girls are less likely to attend school once they hit puberty if their school does not have adequate hygiene facilities.[9][10]
Flush toilets are often only found in affluent areas of developing countries.[11]
References
edit- ^ a b Reuters (2016-11-18). "Pakistan among 10 worst countries for access to toilets". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ Chen, Mark I; von Roenne, Anna; Souare, Yaya; von Roenne, Franz; Ekirapa, Akaco; Howard, Natasha; Borchert, Matthias (2008-12). "Reproductive health for refugees by refugees in Guinea II: sexually transmitted infections". Conflict and Health. 2 (1): 14. doi:10.1186/1752-1505-2-14. ISSN 1752-1505. PMC 2582230. PMID 18947393.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)CS1 maint: PMC format (link) CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Rawlinson, Ollie (11 March 2022). "Rotary clubs work across borders to support sanitation project in Africa". News and Star. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
- ^ a b Associated Press (19 November 2018). "World Toilet Day Highlights Global Sanitation Crisis". VOA. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- ^ Glassman, Stephanie; Firestone, Julia (May 2022). "Restroom Deserts: Where to go when you need to go" (PDF). AARP.
- ^ Das, Maitreyi Bordia (19 November 2017). "The tyranny of toilets". World Bank. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ Reuters (2016-11-18). "Pakistan among 10 worst countries for access to toilets". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ Fleischner, Nicki (21 November 2015). "Toilets by the numbers". Global Citizen. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- ^ Drewko, Aleksandra (September 2007). Resource-Oriented Public Toilets in Oriented Public Toilets in Developing Countries: Ideas, Design, Operation and Maintenance for Arba Minch, Ethiopia. Hamburg: Hamburg University of Technology.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link) - ^ Human development report 2006 : beyond scarcity : power, poverty and the global water crisis. United Nations Development Programme. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2006. ISBN 0-230-50058-7. OCLC 82368388.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Drewko, Aleksandra (September 2007). Resource-Oriented Public Toilets in Oriented Public Toilets in Developing Countries: Ideas, Design, Operation and Maintenance for Arba Minch, Ethiopia. Hamburg: Hamburg University of Technology.
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