Wells, bathrooms and toilets

More people are asking for help to fix their wells, bathrooms and toilets. As funds are limited, we are only repairing those which are seriously damaged and are used by many households.

While people with wells have always shared them with their neighbours, toilets are a different matter. For the toilet, poorer households used the river, but since the earthquake, the more well-to-do households have offered their toilets to their poorer neighbours, making them public facilities.

So far, we’ve helped repair twelve wells, bathrooms and toilets. The community chipped in with labour and any left over bricks and timber, and we provided the cement. Our combined efforts proved a very cost effective way to rebuild the physical infrastructure, but also, importantly the community spirit.

Regards

Sari, Manager Subur Gemi Nastiti

Bu Ngatiyem in the green skirt, is the owner of the land in which this public facility is being repaired.

Pak Kino's well and bathroom.