Author: Obediah Johnson

MONROVIA – Joe Swen, a vulnerably employed Liberian, aged 50, runs a ‘hanging bathroom’ in the township of West Point, in Monrovia to help curtail open defecation on the waterfronts of the township. Swen is a father of two children, ages four years and seven months respectively. For the past seven years, Swen has been running his business in the township. His ‘hanging bathroom,’ constructed with planks and zinc provides services to many residents, marketers and visitors in West Point. Customers are charged L$5 to urinate and L$10 to defecate in the Mesurado River, which empties in the Atlantic Ocean…

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