By Sarah Grainger
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7-year-old
Novianti with her mother Amelia above the beach near their house
© UNICEF Indonesia/2014/Sarah Grainger
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FUNGAFENG, NTT province, Indonesia, April
2014 - Novianti Atafan, 7, was one of the last children in her village to get a
latrine at home. She lives in the seaside village of Fungafeng on Alor island
in Nusa Tenggara Timur province (NTT). The family has a traditional lopo house made of bamboo and wood with
a steep, thatched roof where the family sleeps.
Novianti and her mother, father,
grandfather and 5 older siblings used to get up each morning and scramble down
the slope behind the wooden structure to the beach below to defecate.
All that changed when a sanitarian – a
local health worker who specialises in sanitation and hygiene – visited the
village.
