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Toilet Gift On 113th National Day



Through the kindness of the Bhutan Toilet Organization, I could happily upgrade one of the old unused toilet pots with a SATO pan on 113th National Day as a gift to the girls of Zhemgang Central School. The Aqua-privy toilet, which was severely damaged, was lying idly for the unknown period. It came to my notice for the last many years. I couldn't do anything but kept it secretly within myself looking for a right time. However, every time I go around to make sure that all the toilets are clean, it gives me some kind of intolerable pain and immediately fills my head with certain guilt for not being able to use my expertise and resources and school management for not being able to damn such pertaining issues. 

It was until this special day, I could do nothing about this problem. I spent a long exhausting half-day working alone in an odd place –"girl's toilet". To make it safe and to indicate my presence inside the toilet, I have played music from the sound cloud, which kept me alive throughout my work and even chased away some ghostly figures. It was cold but I had thoroughly enjoyed working for the cause of nation building and for our girls.

 

What can be more special and satisfying than this small gesture of making a clean, safe and adequate toilet for our girls' child on the special day? I always want to help them. I also educate them beyond chapters of science –"I tell them financial independence is a must for girls and women." 

A toilet thing in the country is significantly getting unlike attention from all works of life. Things are changing rapidly. It is the sign of how important and special the toilet is. Everyone needs it. However, for schools, it may not change things as expected given the lack of running water, toilet facilities and the odd design. The lack of civic sense and distance are among others that are posing seemingly difficulty in the road to success. 

 

One big problem I see around is the mentality issue –giving quality facilities only when they reach adulthood is something very wrong. Our school facilities are severely hampering the delivery of quality education. Our young kids are used to broken classrooms, walls, windows, and doors and bad toilet facilities. At the right time and place, our kids miss the chance to connect to the outside world and the future ahead of them. Therefore, until we build secure and engaging school infrastructures with all the modern amenities we will continue to sweat and suffer.

 

With the new SATO Pan, I hope our girls will enjoy their toilet time. 

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