How women go to the toilet in different countries of the world

On November 19, an unusual holiday is celebrated in the world, Toilet Day. And the BBC World TV company published a photo study of Panos Pivtures about how women go to the toilet in different countries of the world.

According to BBC journalists, about 2.5 billion people in the world do not use civilized bathrooms and toilets, because they simply do not have such an opportunity. It is clear that this situation is especially inconvenient for women.

World Toilet Day is an occasion for a photo exhibition, which was held under the impression of how women in different countries suffer from the lack of normal toilet rooms.

Renee's bathroom is an ordinary nook in her rural house near Sydney. Since there are no neighbors nearby, the absence of walls does not create any special problems for Renee.

A 65-year-old Bangladeshi woman named Sukurbanu uses a "natural" toilet built near her home in Rupnagar. Numerous illnesses of a woman are the result of using this, if I may say so, toilet.

Sukurbanu lives with three daughters, so the morning toilet starts with a long queue to the hole in the ground.

Isabella lives in a luxury penthouse. A 33-year-old woman from Rio de Janeiro has no idea how you can do without clean hot water and a comfortable toilet.

Fabiola (69 years old) He lives near the capital of Ecuador, Quito. The woman spent her childhood and youth in poverty, when one toilet had to be shared with two dozen people. Fabiola now lives in an apartment with five bathrooms.

Meseret from Ethiopia, who lives in the country's capital, has a shared toilet in the courtyard of the house she shares with her mother, two brothers and two sons.

For 47-year-old Ima, the toilet is a place of work. A woman from Ghana lives in an apartment with her husband and four children, in which there is no toilet at all. Therefore, when coming to work, Ima uses her official position and visits the "working" toilet with pleasure.

The criminogenic situation in Ghana forces Imu and her family to relieve themselves in plastic bags at night so as not to be on the street next to criminals.

Martin, a 27-year-old Haitian woman, uses the thickets near her house as a toilet. There is a cesspool there - but this is a night "toilet". During the day, Martin, like her neighbors, goes to the public restroom, located a 15-minute walk from the house.

Shangita, who turned 35, moved to New Delhi 10 years ago. A special pride of a woman is a cozy toilet in her new apartment, which was not even close in her native village.

Eiko, a 61-year-old Japanese woman, lives in Tokyo. She often uses a public toilet, where there are heated seats and music is playing. In the recreation room next to the toilets, Eiko can recharge her phone, watch TV and even do a foot massage.

In this Kenyan school, the toilet is designed for 250 students. It is clear that the condition of these latrines, to put it mildly, is deplorable, so children prefer to relieve themselves in secluded corners right on the street.

Eunice (the woman in the photo) is the founder of the school. She and her husband arranged special small toilets at the school, which are inconvenient for adults to use. Now it is difficult for people who are near the school to come to it to relieve themselves in the children's toilet.

49-year-old Romanian Pana from Buzescu, like half of the country's residents, lives in a village where there are no water pipes. Pana has a toilet inside the house, but it is only used when guests come. The rest of the time, the woman's family goes to the toilet on the street.

For 19-year-old Flora, who lives in Maputo with her mother and other relatives, the toilet is shared by her family and several other families of neighbors.

In the house of Nombini from South Africa there are two toilets, portable toilets, which are used by 12 people of her family.

The young writer Maria from New York used to live in Beijing, where she used a shared toilet, so now she is glad to have such a small but personal one in her small bathroom. Oh, no… Two friends live with the girl.

A 46-year-old resident of Zambia is disabled, but Susan is also the founder of a school for children with physical and mental problems. The toilet at the school is located on an elevation, because during the rainy season, water can wash out the cesspool.