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Liberia: Market ground, a place for comfort
Dec 17, 2009
by Michael Kpayili / Staff Writer
The struggle to make Liberia a clean and decent society still remain a hill task challenge with crisis bordering the hygienic condition of the society or selected community with unhygienic concept built in the minds of people who suppose to be seeking better environment.
Although the battle towards cleanliness at certain areas in Liberia continue to worsen on a retrogressing note, people still remain unconscious to the fact that cleanliness detest unhygienic environment and encourages many positive things that develop not only the minds but provide sound health and better decision.
Filth in our various market grounds where mothers go regularly to buy food and where sellers sell food needs not only discussion but total awareness and proper mind developer that cleanliness constitutes better health. Besides transaction at our various market sites, children also accompany their mothers and sometimes keep the entire day either spending time among filth or confine to a particular place for eight to nine hours.
During the first, second and third visits of the I-Help Science delegation to Liberia, an awareness was created although on a smaller scale about the cleanliness of market places and the ways in which filths can be getting ride off at some point in time. The Ihelp American delegation to Liberia came basically to educate Liberian Science teachers and students on how to transform their locally made items to benefit the promotion of science education in Liberia and how to create awareness about cleanliness in our market place.
Monrovia City Mayor Madam Mary Broh of late has been demanding citizens to keep their environment clean but such demand has been heavily protested in some quarters due to many reasons which some see as unforeseen while others see it as provocative.
Market grounds are not only used as place where transactions are carried out but areas where garbage is dumped without remorse of conscience to health education. Toilet facilities at market places in Liberia are deplorable thereby making our nearby rivers and creeks bordering the market places to be polluted.
Health education also known as health science is taught in almost all schools in Liberia but the practical implementation to this is not seen by either parents or students. People prefer taking filth from the various communities to dump it at market grounds because the general understanding of market grounds in Liberia is appalling and disgraceful.
I visited several market centers and spoke to children and their mothers over the hygiene condition of market sites in Liberia and the challenges thereof. The survey conducted proved that not all the mothers feel happy about the filth but according to them, the option to get dispose of their filth is likely impossible. A little girl aged fifteen who was seen playing among the dirt told me in one sentence about the deplorable conditions of the market they were selling. “We sometimes use plastic to toilet”, as portrayed by the little girl.
Science education teaches students about the cleanliness of their environment and the way to keep their body clean. The result of unhealthy condition is mainly sickness and children are mainly the victims of such understanding which is now considered as a tradition at our market places.
Another thing in my opinion that make our market sites very deplorable could be the over crowdedness of the marketers at a single place. People squeeze themselves in a tight place as means of selling to meet their daily living condition and not investigating the poor health condition of the place.
The Liberia marketing Association (LMA) has also been battling with the improvement of toilet facilities at various market grounds around the country but with less result. All market grounds in the country have an extension which contributes highly to the deplorable condition of market sites.
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About the Author:
Michael Kpayili is a staff writer for TheLiberianTimes.com. Kpayili has written articles which have appeared on TheLiberianTimes.com since late 2005, and his hard hitting investigative journalism has earned the respect of the Liberian press community.
Michael Kpayili may be contacted at mkpayili@theliberiantimes.com.
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