Mrs. Sean Sothea, 28, has had her family’s new latrine shelter built lately. Her decision to get one latrine is noteworthy. Her husband and she are running a small food business in front of Angkor Wat temple, Siem Reap province. They have gone through difficult times saving up for a new motorbike to improve transportation from home to the shop. However, learning that many fellow villagers have bought and installed latrines one after another, they confidently decided to use some amount of the saving to buy and install one latrine nicely with wooden shelter.
Sothea said, “Since we moved to earn for a living here, we have tried to save up for many necessary things. We thought of having one latrine a lot of times before but it was pretty difficult and expensive to get it from the market to home. Just recently that we saw someone selling it right in the village with delivery and installing service, and people started to build latrines. So we decided that it is OK to use 30% of the saving to build one nice latrine first. We are so busy that we always get up early and come home late. It was scared and uncomfortable having to go shit in the back yard in the dark.” Her husband added, “We can still save up again for motorbike in the next two months or three. These days we feel a lot faster getting to the shop because we can shit, wash, and get dress in comfort. We even have some time for a proper breakfast before opening hour.”
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