There's an insightful article at AJE about the struggles that residents of Kenya's slums face in their day to day lives.
Kenyan's go to the polls tomorrow to exercise their democratic franchise. Just as here, their choices will be limited to choosing between greater and lesser crooks.
In a country where the transport of choice for the political class is a fleet of chauffeur-driven Mercedes limousines, forty percent of the population live below the poverty line of $1.25 a day. Hundreds of thousands of the poorest slum dwellers have no access to toilet facilities.
Hence the "flying toilet." That's where you shit in a bag and then dispose of it by throwing it as far as you can.
While there's not an app for that (yet), there is an NGO; Peepoople.
Peepoople hopes to provide a measure of dignity to the 2.6 billion people on the planet who have no place to take a dump. They provide a sanitary biodegradable "peepoo" bag. Then, after you're done your business, instead of pitching the peepoo bag off your front stoop you drop it off at a collection center.
No more flying toilets!
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