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Biblical Mandates for Sustainable Sanitation

Authors: OJEWOLE Afolarin

Publication Type: Chapters in Books

Journal: Millennium Development Goals (mdgs) As Instruments For Development In Africa, Ed. J. Ganu & M. A. Oni, 598-613. Arabian Journal Of Business And Management Review. Published By Babcock University, Valley View University, And Arabian Group Of Journals

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In September 2000, world leaders at the United Nations unanimously signed the Millennium Declaration and agreed to meet eight (8) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the year 2015 that would improve the lives of the world's poorest people. The seventh MDG which targets halving, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to basic sanitation, is badly off track in most countries thus affecting all the other MDGs. Currently, more than 2.6 billion people (about 40% of the world’s population and about half the population of the developing world) do not have access to basic sanitation; 1.1 billion of whom defecate in the open, the bush, back yards, ditches, or buckets or at best in leaky privies. Subsequently, about 1.5 million children under the age of five die yearly because of water- and sanitation-related diseases. Hundreds of millions suffer with Ascaris worms, hookworm, schistosomiasis and liver fluke. Others have dysentery, hepatitis, giardia, tapeworms, typhoid, polio, trachoma, tropical enteropathy, Hepatitis A, B and C, typhoid fever, poliomyelitis and other enteroviruses, neurocysticercosis and other zoonoses. All these can be dealt with through safe disposal of excreta and safe hygienic behavior. This paper will examine the strong and clear biblical mandates for sanitation and hygienic behavior in order to better educate the populace. The social responsibility of leadership concerning sanitation as mandated by scriptures will be enumerated. The religious and spiritual implications of sanitation would be discussed with the view of encouraging houses of worship to push for hygienic behaviors.

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OJEWOLE,A. . (2013). Biblical Mandates for Sustainable Sanitation, 1 (), 598-598.

OJEWOLE,A. . "Biblical Mandates for Sustainable Sanitation" 1, no (), (2013): 598-598.

OJEWOLE,A. and . (2013). Biblical Mandates for Sustainable Sanitation, 1 (), pp598-598.

OJEWOLEA, . Biblical Mandates for Sustainable Sanitation. 2013, 1 ():598-598.

OJEWOLE,Afolarin , . "Biblical Mandates for Sustainable Sanitation", 1 . (2013) : 598-598.

O.Afolarin , "Biblical Mandates for Sustainable Sanitation" vol.1, no., pp. 598-598, 2013.

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