認真反思:有廁所上意味着什麼?
Me, Myself And The Loo: A Woman's FutureCan Rest On A Toilet
我，我的健康狀況和情緒以及廁所：廁所之上的女性未來What does it mean to have a toilet?
有廁所上意味着什麼？We in the West don't spend much timepondering that question.
西方人並不需要花費很多時間來考慮這個問題。
"It's something that's always in thebackground that keeps everything else moving," says Sam Drabble of Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP),a London-based nonprofit. "It allows us to live very busy lives, and it'snot something we ever need to think about."
來自倫敦非盈利組織城市貧困人口用水與衛生的Sam Drabble 說，“廁所永遠是上不了檯面但卻讓其他一切事情得以正常進行的那部分，廁所讓我們可以投入忙碌的生活，但也不用爲其而操心”。Others aren't so fortunate. Geeta has notoilet near her home in northern India; she treks 2 miles in thedark to a field for privacy. If Vanessa's school had private bathrooms, the17-year-old wouldn't have to miss class when she's having her period. In Ecuador, Reverside,37, wouldn't have to visit her brother's house to use his toilet, which isshared by nine other people from different families.
可其他人就沒有這麼幸運了，生活在印度北部的Geeta就無法在家裏附近找到廁所；她要在黑暗中跋涉2英里到一處曠野解決私事。如果Vanessa的學校有獨立衛生間的話，17歲的她就不會在來例假期間缺課了，而來自厄瓜多爾的37歲女子Reverside也就不用非得去她哥哥的家裏用衛生間了，公用這個衛生間的還有來自不同家庭的9名人員。在這25億沒有清潔像樣的廁所可上的人當中——有過十億的人在戶外排便——而成年女性和女孩們是最嚴重的受害者。這種情況在南亞、東南亞和撒哈拉以南非洲地區的收入較低國家很常見。
The theme of WorldToilet Day this year is how women suffer when they lack a proper out running water or plumbing, many resort to unsafe and squalidalternatives. A toilet may simply be a hole in the ground or a space in an openfield. In some parts of South Asia,"hanging toilets"— bamboo huts with a hole cut out in the floor, suspended 3 feet above a pond —are common.
今年世界廁所日的主題是女性沒有像樣的廁所可上會遭受怎樣的痛苦。如果沒有自來水或水暖設備，很多人就轉而選擇不安全的不潔飲用水。而廁所的概念可能就只是地面的一個坑或戶外的一片空地。“懸空廁所”在南亞有些地區很常見——在竹棚的地板上挖個坑，懸掛於池塘3尺之上。Geeta comes from the Indian village wheretwo teenage girls were gang-rapedand murdered over the summer while relieving themselves in a field. InAfrica, 1 in 10 girls skipsschool during menstruation or completely drops out.
Geeta來自印度村落，這裏有兩名十幾歲的女孩在今年夏天因在曠野上方便而遭到輪姦和謀殺。在非洲，有十分之一的女孩因例假缺課，甚至輟學。
Think how different Geeta's life would beif she had a toilet in her home.
想想看，如果Geeta在家裏就有廁所可上的話，她的生活會是多麼地不一樣。
