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Beyond the Pit: A Community Bathroom Built for Safety and Dignity
Imagine it’s the middle of the night and you wake up needing to use the bathroom. You have to venture outside to a dilapidated wood enclosure and squat over a ground pit. The smell of hundreds of others who’ve gone before you in nauseating. During Orongo’s flood season that pit may already be overflowing and completely unusable. Now imagine you’re older in years and your knees don’t bend the way they used to. Your back aches, you have arthritis in your hips and you may even u

Melissa Disney James
Sep 113 min read
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