It\u2019s easy to take the luxury of a toilet for granted. It\u2019s one of the most basic necessities for you and me, but millions around the world have never used one, and their health suffers for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pa-Chouk is a father in Cambodia. When he and his family needed to go to the bathroom, they would just go into the bush close to their home and dig holes for their waste. As you can imagine, having germs like this so close to their living space was not good for the family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy whole family was constantly sick,\u201d Pa-Chouk told us. \u201cOur little children were always complaining of sick stomachs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His children, including a 9-month-old baby, were not safe as long as the water they drank, the water they bathed in, the water they washed their food in, the water they depended on, was contaminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your contribution can reach more families like Pa-Chouk\u2019s who need your assistance right now – please give generously.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n With ADRA\u2019s assistance, Pa-Chouk\u2019s family now has a latrine and they are much healthier!<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen ADRA came, we were taught to not openly defecate and it made such a big difference,\u201d he says. \u201cI am so happy to have this latrine. It\u2019s very close to our house. We don\u2019t have to walk far and we can even take a bath inside this bathroom. We also received so much training from ADRA on cleanliness and how to keep our area and water clean.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The biggest change for the family is that they aren\u2019t sick all the time. The money that they used to spend on health issues and medicine can be spent for more important things, like food and caring for their children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI used to do it all wrong,\u201d Pa-Chouk told us. \u201cI am almost ashamed and scared of how I used to live. I used to have diarrhea all the time. My whole family had stomach issues. I don\u2019t remember how often we were sick. It seemed never-ending.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s easy to take the luxury of a toilet for granted. It\u2019s one of the most basic necessities for you and me, but millions around the world have never used one, and their health suffers for it.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[780,615,803,284],"tags":[1079,873,1137],"class_list":["post-20549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-blog","category-cambodia","category-health","tag-crisis","tag-justice-compassion-love","tag-ways-to-give"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20549"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45946,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20549\/revisions\/45946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}