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...regular access to safe sanitation, which at a minimum means a pit latrine. Most Ethiopians don't make the connection between the way they dispose of human waste and their family's health; instead, they believe that "diseases are transmitted by the will of God," says Worku Fentahun, head of health for the Banja district in the country's north. As a consequence, the average Ethiopian child suffers five to 12 episodes of diarrhea a year. Based on studies by the country's government and the World Bank, and by the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, between...
...Birhanu Worku, who cultivates half a hectare or so of potatoes and barley, was one of the first in Banja to build a pit latrine three years ago. It's a simple affair: a hole in the ground, 1 m across and 3 m deep, covered with a concrete slab and surrounded by mud walls, a thatched roof and a bamboo door. Outside the toilet is a plastic watering can, which Worku has jerry-rigged to dispense a trickle of water for flushing. His neighbors, he says, "came and asked me why I built it and how it worked...
...Everyone and their grandmother is fighting to get a shuttle," said Currier resident Aelaf D. Worku '98, lamenting her experience with crowding on the smaller shuttles...
...more social houses; one of the few places where you can meet a significant portion of the House," says Aelaf D. Worku...
...Worku says other alumni probably remember flooding the courtyard to form a skating rink during cold winters and "blow-out parties in the 10-man suite known across the Eastern seaboard...