认真反思:有厕所上意味着什么?
Me, Myself And The Loo: A Woman's FutureCan Rest On A Toilet
我，我的健康状况和情绪以及厕所：厕所之上的女性未来What does it mean to have a toilet?
有厕所上意味着什么？We in the West don't spend much timepondering that question.
西方人并不需要花费很多时间来考虑这个问题。
"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."
来自伦敦非盈利组织城市贫困人口用水与卫生的Sam Drabble 说，“厕所永远是上不了台面但却让其他一切事情得以正常进行的那部分，厕所让我们可以投入忙碌的生活，但也不用为其而操心”。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.
可其他人就没有这么幸运了，生活在印度北部的Geeta就无法在家里附近找到厕所；她要在黑暗中跋涉2英里到一处旷野解决私事。如果Vanessa的学校有独立卫生间的话，17岁的她就不会在来例假期间缺课了，而来自厄瓜多尔的37岁女子Reverside也就不用非得去她哥哥的家里用卫生间了，公用这个卫生间的还有来自不同家庭的9名人员。在这25亿没有清洁像样的厕所可上的人当中——有过十亿的人在户外排便——而成年女性和女孩们是最严重的受害者。这种情况在南亚、东南亚和撒哈拉以南非洲地区的收入较低国家很常见。
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.
今年世界厕所日的主题是女性没有像样的厕所可上会遭受怎样的痛苦。如果没有自来水或水暖设备，很多人就转而选择不安全的不洁饮用水。而厕所的概念可能就只是地面的一个坑或户外的一片空地。“悬空厕所”在南亚有些地区很常见——在竹棚的地板上挖个坑，悬挂于池塘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来自印度村落，这里有两名十几岁的女孩在今年夏天因在旷野上方便而遭到轮奸和谋杀。在非洲，有十分之一的女孩因例假缺课，甚至辍学。
Think how different Geeta's life would beif she had a toilet in her home.
想想看，如果Geeta在家里就有厕所可上的话，她的生活会是多么地不一样。
