Me, Myself And The Loo: A Woman's Future Can Rest On A Toilet
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Me, Myself And The Loo: A Woman's Future Can Rest On A Toilet

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Me, Myself And The Loo: A Woman's Future Can Rest On A Toilet Hide caption At the school that Eunice co-founded in Navaisha, Kenya, tenants living nearby often used the bathrooms and left them dirty. Previous Next Patrick Brown/WSUP/Panos Hide caption Geeta walks almost 4 miles round-trip to relieve herself in a field early every morning and late in the evening. "It's something that's always in the background that keeps everything else moving," says Sam Drabble of Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor, a London-based nonprofit. Sponsor Message Among the 2.5 billion people without access to a clean and proper toilet — more than a billion of whom defecate out in the open — "women and girls are hit hardest," Drabble says.

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