If anyone was following our blog regularly, they would think that Camps is obsessed with bowel movements. I suppose there would be an element of truth. With titles such as “Poop Two – The sequel“, I guess we stand guilty! Yes, we love toilets and what happens in them and yes, we strongly believe that providing hygienic environments to spend your time squatting and catching up on the local newspaper is a human right!

Judging by the amount of enthusiasm and determination by our Gappers, Lifers and School Teams to just get those holes dug, I reckon they all share our sentiments. I have not been around the bog (oops – I mean block!) for that long but in the last six months, I have seen two ablution blocks complete from start to end and a couple more poop-holes in the making.

This summer, our school teams started the process of putting up a toilet block at the Farmer’s Centre in Muhaka. In weeks, the hole was dug but this lot were determined to make sure there was a lot of space for waste…

So they dug and dug and dug…and then one day, they stopped digging and bunch of gappers started building. And they built and built and built and well, whaddya know! Hey presto! One spotless white toilet to compliment your shiny white teeth!

Meanwhile, not far from the sunny smiles in Muhaka, another group of people (better known as Lifers) were on poop role too at the local primary school. This lot dug and dug and dug too. Then comes the fun bit where you get to lay blocks, plaster walls and hang out at the toilet block. After a few hard weeks of smiley sweats, things begin to take shape, the paint goes on and the toilet seats get polished and ready to use. Now isn’t this just a work of art…

One would have thought that the gappers had their fare share of shit but they just had to keep going so when a lovely old widow asked for some help to build a toilet, hands went in the air and the shovels were back in action. Indeed, no story about a bowel movements would be complete without saying, they too dug and dug and dug…

and dug and dug and dug…

Alas, I am afraid this story will have to have a sequel which we promise to release just after christmas so for those of you that are coming out early next year, arm yourselves with a whole lot of shitty jokes…

Cause Camps is on  a bog roll!

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