Editor

The headline ‘Twinning of toilets making a real difference in Malawi’ (Cambrian News last week) intrigued me, as I pondered what that could be all about.

But it doesn’t take much working out, does it? Yet more charity cash needed in Africa. We read that “one in four people worldwide” do not have facilities we have known for years; and charity cash for such twinning of toilets would be welcomed in more than 30 countries.

We see on our television screens endless appeals for clean water projects in progress in Africa.

The journalist, Freddie Forsyth, tells us there shouldn’t be a single drop of impure water for everyday consumption in Africa.

I can remember in our primary school in Chester when the war was scarcely over, the appeals for cash for Africa. What has altered since then?

Do we truly believe the hierarchy in any of the African countries, have the same grades for everyday needs, that they know others share?

Engineering skills, both for clean water supplies and sanitation anywhere/everywhere are not required to the level of rocket science.

I am not deriding in any way the supreme efforts of The Sweet Shop staff; the supporters of the Aberdyfi Literary Institute and/ or stalwarts of the English Chapel. On the contrary, I salute them fully for their endeavours, ambition and application.

I am concerned such efforts and provision mean we are ensuring an ongoing dependency on folk like them.

Jill Baxter Abergynolwyn

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