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Интересный кусочек из одной статьи. Статья из сборника, часть которого я перевожу. Сборник "Tomorrow today", если что.

Health education and renewable energy in China

Health education and renewable energy in China
People in many rural areas in China struggle to meet basic needs. Fei’e Village of Jian Yang County in Sichuan was chosen for a Mercy Relief eco-sanitation development project that has led to greatly improved living conditions. Previously, the pig-rearing villagers lived with poor sanitation and a high risk of epidemics due to the improper disposal of human and pig excrement in open pits. In addition, villagers suffered poor health due to the use of coal and wood for cooking in unventilated kitchens.
Through the installation of underground anaerobic biogas digestors serving 224 of the poorest households in the village, inhabited largely by the elderly, an efficient waste management system was developed. The excrement, collected via a new piping system from the pig pens and rebuilt toilets, is stored in the digestors and used to harvest enough biogas to fuel biogas cookers and lamps provided for the villagers to serve their household cooking and lighting needs. The residue excrement from the digestors is also used to fertilise crops.
In addition to enjoying better sanitation, the villagers now spend less on buying electricity from the national grid, and are encouraged to abstain from the environmentally unfriendly practices of tree-cutting for firewood and using chemical fertilisers for farming. This holistic project has educated the entire community about public healthcare, renewable energy and waste, environmental protection and safer agricultural produce.
Creating or enabling access to better education is often one of the most effective, albeit challenging, ways to combat chronic poverty and stimulate community development. Improving educational infrastructures, building better and more effective educational resources, enabling disadvantaged children to return to school or continue education, and enhancing teachers’ skills and knowledge are possible areas for intervention identified by Mercy Relief to address the education sector’s needs, both in times of peace and following disasters.
It is, however, important to note that impoverished or remote communities may lack longer-term planning capability due to their constant preoccupation with survival. Hence, the culture of learning cannot be imposed on them overnight. It is imperative that in engaging these communities, any education programme should include other developmental efforts to address their basic survival needs.

Вообще, объективно говоря, интереснейший сборник. Я хоть и плююсь, что пардоньте заебалась переводить, но все это правда очень интересно и полезно. Не только в плане языка и лексики.