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Student Ladies, Washrooms, and Deprived Dignity
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News – MyJoyOnline
One of the more overlooked areas where inequality is stark is in the question of access to clean water and sanitation within educational institutions.
Its washrooms are generally neat—particularly the ladies’ facilities—and they have increasingly attracted students from the lecture hall because that facility’s own washrooms frequently have no water and are often locked.
While this decision might make financial sense, the wahala is nonetheless reflective of a broader systemic failure of how we manage our educational facilities as a country.
It speaks to the broader infrastructural deficit in our educational facilities that sometimes undermines the dignity of students.
A student denied access to safe and clean facilities (sanitation and clean water, for example) is denied more than comfort—they are denied equal opportunity to learn, to excel, and to live with dignity.