Sandra Aguinaldo’s “No kubeta” on i-Witness

Airing on April 7, 2008, Monday late night after Saksi

In the most recent sanitation survey of the Department of Health, a huge chunk of our population still lacks a very important facility in their homes: the comfort room!

But what’s more surprising is this: majority of residents even in developed urban areas still do not have proper toilets.

New York Festivals Gold and Silver Medalist Sandra Aguinaldo faces this pressing sanitation issue in her I-Witness documentary this Monday.

50% of Rizal province’s more than one million residents do not have toilets. Sandra goes to Jalajala, Rizal and discovers that until now, locals either go to the river to answer the call of nature, or use the old system of digging their own “dump” site.

Meanwhile, children in Caloocan city’s urban poor areas have grown accustomed to defecating on the streets and in canals. Residents are too poor to finance the building of a public restroom, while the local government argues there is no point in such a project, as they are illegal settlers whose houses will soon be demolished.

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