New toilets for the learners

The new ablution block at the primary school is now officially opened!  And they've got to be the nicest toilets of any primary school in Namibia.

 

I just hope they stay about as clean and new as they are now, but I have my worries.  As we've said before, many of these learners are quite economically-disadvantaged and stay at the farm, so many are not all that used to using and maintaining toilets (and nice, new ones at that).  It feels safe to say that they feel more comfortable using the bush, which I noticed this week as many learners ran past the toilets into the neighboring bush to satisfy their needs.

I'm trying to help the school with putting rules, etc into place and executing consequences for breaking them if anyone will take this seriously.  But we will wait and see, and I will have to follow up about this matter next school year for ya'll who care about toilets in Namibia!

Oh yeah and they cost N$200,000, or just under USD $30,000.  So this is not a small investment!  (PS- What's the most recent trend of the value of the USD?)