Well, actually quite luxurious.
I live on a compound which includes the house my landlady, two other houses and a Duka (shop).
My landlady has a reasonable sized house and lives there with several family members (this varies somewhat, so who is actually living there?).
In the other house there are three bedrooms, in two of them live a family and in one a student. These people cook outside on a charcoal fire in the backyard and they have a shower / toilet block in the back garden. Next to the Duka is a small room and two students share that room, they also cook outside and use the shower / toilet block.
I live in the other house and have my own bathroom in the house and I installed a kitchen, as i was not very keen on cooking outside on a charcoal stove. My home consists of a kitchen, a bedroom, a bathroom and a living room, and all of that on 32m2.
The great thing about my house is that I never have to clean the windows, because there is no glass in it. Of course this does mean that I have to sweep more because of the dust blowing inside.
The luxury is in the fact that I have indoor plumbing. And also we have electricity (as Tanesco, the electricity company, works).
Compared to how many people, even here in the city live, this is a luxury.
A few doors down , they have no electricity and no water. In large parts of the countryside there is also no water or electricity.
Here in the city, there are at least the lake and several stand pipes or pumps where one can get water. In the country I have seen that people depend on, for example, a river . In the dry season this means that a hole has to be dug in the riverbed in the hope that you can find water. You then have to use a small cup to fill up a jerrycan.
Nowadays, the water is running low and this can be a major problem . Also for the country as a whole. The fields dried up, the price of food goes up and people will be really hungry if there is not quickly a substantial amount of rain.
Geen opmerkingen:
Een reactie posten