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Millions of sanitation workers in the developing world are forced to work in conditions that endanger their health and lives, and violate their dignity and human rights bit.ly/3550Jpp
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@WHO_Europe @WHOSEARO @pahowho @WHOEMRO @WHOWPRO @WHOAFRO Sanitation workers are the people who do jobs such as
🧽 cleaning toilets
🧽 emptying pits and septic tanks
🧽 cleaning sewers and manholes
🧽 operating pumping stations and treatment plants
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@WHO_Europe @WHOSEARO @pahowho @WHOEMRO @WHOWPRO @WHOAFRO Sanitation workers often come into direct contact with human waste, working with no equipment or protection to remove it by hand. This exposes them to a long list of health hazards and diseases bit.ly/3550Jpp
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@WHO_Europe @WHOSEARO @pahowho @WHOEMRO @WHOWPRO @WHOAFRO Sanitation workers provide an essential public service that is key to safeguarding human health.
They should be protected from occupational exposure, such as to injury, asphyxiation and pathogens, through adequate
health and safety measures bit.ly/3550Jpp
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@WHO_Europe @WHOSEARO @pahowho @WHOEMRO @WHOWPRO @WHOAFRO "Once I walked to a large sewer line to clear a rotten cow stuck in the sewer. It took me almost an entire day. When I had to go home, I could not take a bus, or a rickshaw as I was stinking because of the rotten cow."
-Gangalappa, 50 bit.ly/Gangalappa
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@WHO_Europe @WHOSEARO @pahowho @WHOEMRO @WHOWPRO @WHOAFRO "Many people who do this work are feeling stigma about it. But who will do this job if everyone feels this way? It's our responsibility to do it. It is for the environment"
-Julius Chisengo, 49 bit.ly/Chisengo
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@WHO_Europe @WHOSEARO @pahowho @WHOEMRO @WHOWPRO @WHOAFRO "There is no dirty work, there are only dirty problems. It is true that our job is to empty the faeces from the latrine pits, but where do the faeces come from? Don’t they come out of people's bodies before ending up in the pit? "
-Inoussa Ouedraogo, 48 bit.ly/IOuedraogo

@WHO_Europe @WHOSEARO @pahowho @WHOEMRO @WHOWPRO @WHOAFRO "Some people are even scared to come close to this kind of work. They are surprised that at my age, I am doing this kind of work. I don't feel bad though because through this work I get something [payment]"
-Langa Maseko, 24 bit.ly/37ojyWW
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