Vickey Wall
February 4, 2011
4:12 p.m
How would people act if they did not even have the right to privacy of a bathroom? What if instead of homes having one two and three, sometimes more bathrooms there were just port-a-potties located throughout the city for public use? If everyone had a key to these, certain bathrooms and have to pay rent to use the facilities that are not cleaned properly. Just to imagine the filth that would accumulate with different people using poorly constructed port-o-potties as a bathroom. Well these very conditions are the reality of people in Kenya. In a slum area by the capital Nairobi Kenya, women are facing many issues. As if the unsanitary conditions of these shared, restrooms were not bad enough the women are being affected the most, due to high attack rates against them. The women in this slum village are afraid to use the bathroom after a certain time unless they are in a group or with a male family member or friend. These women in this village are being attacked while on their way to the bathroom. They are the target of gangs and other groups of men. These men are jumping these women, taking them to abandoned houses, and taking turns raping them. One of the women that told her story spoke of how she ignored the warning and felt that since it was only 7:30p.m and other people walking around that she would be okay. However when she left out the bathroom she was jumped and raped by five different guys who took turns on her until she blacked out, as if this ordeal wasn’t enough to bare she found of that she had contracted HIV from this incident. This is a tough issue even though it only affects a small area in Kenya. These women are so scared to go to the bathrooms they use the bathroom in little bags that they toss out the window, which adds to how unsanitary this place is, and soon people are going to start getting sick and no one knows how far this illness will travel.
http://womennewsnetwork.net/2010/12/27/kenya-flying-toilets-women/
1 comment:
It is amazing that the world is still tolerant of such situations. Where are the police, husbands bothers, etc. It is a shame women can not have the same privlege to go to the bathroom and not be in fear. We think of this as being a problem in a third world country but how many of you girls would walk alone across campus after dark.
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