from Elliott
The rural area often lacks much of the infrastructure that urban areas do. In South Africa, service delivery is the term used for when government provides basic services for the population. With an imbalance in resources under apartheid the democratic government has been working (to varying degrees of success) to bring the whole nation up to a certain minimum standard.
For the six years we have been in the rural areas one of the basic upgrades is to provide durable outhouses for those without proper sewage which is most of the people in the Eastern Cape where we are. You dig the pit and the government will supply a kit of metal corners and cement panels to construct a quite long lasting outhouse.
And that has been a welcome upgrade for most!
Now I see a sign that makes me wonder - has the standard been changed? What is a "VIP Toilet"?
I did not know we had VIP's in our midst but wonder what makes it suitable for a VIP? Will this make regular rank and file folks think they were cheated when they got the non- VIP Toilet?
In some cultures, the Pastor has a position of prominence. Here that would be the case but I am not so sure that is always the case in the US where celebrities and sports stars are more likely to be revered by the mass population. If they were the VIP's the VIP Toilet program envisioned that would make what I saw recently make sense.
This must be the VIP Toilet they were referring to. But with service delivery being not quite 100% here, it is not surprising that it seems just a bit askew!
The rural area often lacks much of the infrastructure that urban areas do. In South Africa, service delivery is the term used for when government provides basic services for the population. With an imbalance in resources under apartheid the democratic government has been working (to varying degrees of success) to bring the whole nation up to a certain minimum standard.For the six years we have been in the rural areas one of the basic upgrades is to provide durable outhouses for those without proper sewage which is most of the people in the Eastern Cape where we are. You dig the pit and the government will supply a kit of metal corners and cement panels to construct a quite long lasting outhouse.
And that has been a welcome upgrade for most!
Now I see a sign that makes me wonder - has the standard been changed? What is a "VIP Toilet"?
I did not know we had VIP's in our midst but wonder what makes it suitable for a VIP? Will this make regular rank and file folks think they were cheated when they got the non- VIP Toilet?
In some cultures, the Pastor has a position of prominence. Here that would be the case but I am not so sure that is always the case in the US where celebrities and sports stars are more likely to be revered by the mass population. If they were the VIP's the VIP Toilet program envisioned that would make what I saw recently make sense.
This must be the VIP Toilet they were referring to. But with service delivery being not quite 100% here, it is not surprising that it seems just a bit askew!
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