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Erwin and Puskesmas Kataka director Bertoldus Rudolfus Bond, A.Md.Kep sit beside a waste poster in East Sumba.<\/p>\n
Photograph in 1920 \u00d7 1080 format. Click the image to view it at full size.<\/p>\n
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This new Photo of the Day<\/a> shows two men with bowed heads and closed eyes beside our waste-sorting poster. The East Sumba waste crisis gives this moment a painful meaning. To me, the prayer asks whether we have reached the point of asking God to do what public services should do. A poster explains the risks. Public action must follow.<\/p>\n The two plastic water bottles trouble me too. We were offered water in a room without air conditioning, perhaps 40\u00b0C. We are mindful of plastic bottles. This is a contradiction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n In the places where I work, discarded plastic has become part of the landscape. I do not see the authorities acting at the scale required. That is my observation from the field. Families need reliable collection and safe disposal. Telling them to be responsible is insufficient when those services are missing.<\/p>\n Fair Future has placed large educational billboards<\/a> at ten locations in Waingapu. In villages, Kawan Sehat health agents carry fabric posters in their bags. They unfold them, explain waste sorting and discuss the risks with families. Their work brings prevention into daily life.<\/p>\n Poorly managed waste can contaminate water and soil; burning it releases pollutants that damage respiratory health. Plastic pollution also harms wildlife and ecosystems. One Health<\/a> connects these risks to the health of the people living alongside them.<\/p>\n Our waste-management poster<\/a> and educational campaigns<\/a> give people tools to begin. But education needs a functioning waste system behind it. A health agent cannot carry a town’s public-service responsibilities in her bag.<\/p>\n I respect the prayer in this photograph. What I cannot accept is that communities should have to wait for a miracle to obtain basic protection. The East Sumba waste crisis demands public action, while our agents continue the work within their reach.<\/p>\n Alex Wettstein – Fair Future Foundation<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][dsm_text_divider header=”External Links” admin_label=”5. Title: External Links” _builder_version=”4.27.9″ _module_preset=”21536528-39cb-48dd-9e70-e5a08f7ac11f” header_text_color=”#FFFFFF” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/dsm_text_divider][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – Verified external resources” _builder_version=”4.27.9″ _module_preset=”a9f9db81-700d-4f32-ab60-12f4699a1a92″ text_orientation=”left” custom_css_main_element=”text-align: left !important;” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_text=”Understand waste and One Health” admin_label=”Pop-Up Button – Waste and One Health” _builder_version=”4.27.8″ _module_preset=”ea06e631-5eb7-48fe-b975-7d01a636427d” custom_margin=”2vh||||false|false” dsm_modules_popup=”on” dsm_modules_popup_library=”25128727″ dsm_modules_popup_width=”25%” dsm_modules_close_icon_color=”#111111″ locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” dsm_modules_popup_width_tablet=”65%” dsm_modules_popup_width_phone=”95%” dsm_modules_popup_width_last_edited=”on|desktop”][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Due teste inclinate accanto a un poster sulla raccolta differenziata mettono in luce la crisi dei rifiuti a East Sumba. I cartelloni pubblicitari Fair Future e i rappresentanti di Kawan Sehat Agents spiegano la prevenzione nelle citt\u00e0 e nei villaggi. Alex chiede perch\u00e9 le comunit\u00e0 devono continuare a aspettare che i servizi pubblici adempiano alla loro responsabilit\u00e0 di proteggere la salute.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":25128726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[285,1317,1223],"tags":[1436,1554,451,1762,474,988,1596],"class_list":["post-25128725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-education","category-environment-risk","category-picture-of-the-day","tag-east-sumba","tag-health-education","tag-kawan-sehat","tag-one-health","tag-waingapu","tag-waste-management","tag-waste-sorting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n
Facing the East Sumba waste crisis<\/h2>\n
A shared health responsibility<\/h2>\n
List of Related Organisations with Hyperlinks<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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