Gospel for Asia

  WILLS POINT, TX –   Gospel for Asia  (GFA World) founded by  KP Yohannan , which inspired numerous charities like  Gospel for Asia Canada , to assist the poor and deprived worldwide ,  issued this Special Report on the ongoing fight against open defecation, using outdoor toilets to improve sanitation. What Do the World’s Sanitation Problems Have to Do with Us? For those of us with indoor flush toilets—and clean ones at that—with sewer lines that carry waste to treatment facilities, and who live in places where waterborne and airborne bacteria are not a hazard, our response to this crisis is probably,  So what?  We don’t say this out loud, but like so many other dire extremes jockeying for our attention, it doesn’t really touch our lives. However, in a majority of places, America is starting to suffer from failing infrastructure. Most of us think of that in terms of roads and bridges needing repair or major overhauling, a transportation issue. Ye...

 WILLS POINT, TX – Gospel for Asia (GFA World) founded by KP Yohannan , which inspired numerous charities like Gospel for Asia Canada , to assist the poor and deprived worldwide , issued this Special Report on the ongoing fight against open defecation, and how using outdoor toilets helps to improve sanitation. Since I first wrote about open defecation a few years ago, efforts to combat the problem have gathered momentum. A report compiled by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in June shows the percentage of people practicing open defecation declined from 21 percent (1.3 billion) in 2000 to 9 percent (673 million) by 2017. Karen Burton Mains, author While this is encouraging news, there is much more to be done. The United Nations (UN) says “some 2.2 billion people around the world do not have safely-managed drinking water, while 4.2 billion go without safe sanitation services and three billion lack basic handwashing facilities.” “M...