Unwanted Gift No. 4: Loo-pee Ideas
Or you could help around the house by buying a toilet. Of course by toilet this means a little 4x4 feet enclosure bound by asbestos sheets with a hole in the ground! While in some developed societies there have been initiatives to build state-of-the-art loos and innovations that go beyond the basics, just take a look at the loos in China that monitor your health by taking readings from your pee. But people in the developing worlds’ expectations are weighed in proportion to their actual economic capabilities; the benchmark used for their development is the bare minimum. These bog ideas held up as an ideal present represents a further degradation of what is possible and desirable. People in the developing world do not need an education in sanitation and hygiene; or more holes dug to shit in they need social wealth that lifts them out of poor living conditions.