Website owner: James Miller
What is rural life like in third world countries? In most places
the following conditions probably obtain:
- a rudimentary one or two room house with no indoor plumbing or
electricity. It may be constructed of bamboo, sun-dried brick,
unpainted wood or some other substance.
- no central heating
- no air conditioning
- no indoor toilet
- no bath or shower
- no sink with running water
- no modern kitchen
- no refrigerator
- no oven
- no dishwasher
- no washing machine
- no electric lights
- no cars
What are the implications of all this in regard to daily routine?
Because they have no refrigerator they can't store leftover food
for more than a day or two and so that means that each day they
make a trip to the local market to buy food for the day -- fresh
vegetables, fruit, etc.. Then they prepare the food from scratch.
There are few or no packaged foods or canned foods. Because of
the importance of the food market they probably live in or near
villages -- or, at least, within walking distance of a market.
And because they have no oven they buy fresh-baked bread each day
at the market. Because they have no washing machine they wash
their clothes by hand, perhaps down in a nearby river -- or else
they pay some washerwoman to wash them for them. Because they
have no cars they walk, ride bicycle, or depend on buses. Because
no one owns motor vehicles the roads are dirt roads, perhaps just
footpaths, which turn to quagmires during the rainy season.
Sept 1999
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