How is stay clean in Africa....

How I stay clean in Africa!

Here is the run down on how I stay clean in Ghana and how most Ghanaians keep clean as well.

There are no showers here, so to stay clean here these are the steps I take:

Step 1: Get a med. Sized bucket

Step 2: Fill bucket with water

Step 3: Get a med. Sized cup

Step 4: Place cut into bucket and fill with water

Step 5: With cup in hand, rise hand above your head, and tilt down

Step 6: Repeat steps 4 and 5 till clean

There are no sinks here to clean my teeth, so here are the steps that I take:

Step 1: Fill a med. Sized cup with water

Step 2: Put toothpaste on toothbrush

Step 3: Walk outside your room to a place where you can spit, for me this is outside my room near a tree

Step 4: Brush teeth

Step 5: With cup of water, wash out your mouth and spit

*Side note: Some Ghanaians don’t use toothbrushes, they use a chew stick, which is a small stick from the Neem tree which grows throughout Ghana and has an anti-bacterial property, to clean their teeth.*

There are of course no laundry machines here, so I use two buckets to clean my clothes:

Step 1: Fill both buckets with clean water

 

Step 2: Put washing powder (like OMO, tide or any of the others) in one of the buckets

Step 3: Place dirty clothes in bucket with washing powder

Step 4: Wash each piece of clothing separately by hand in a circular motion, while dunking the clothes back into the soapy water

Step 5: Once washed, ring out clothing and place into the clean bucket of water

Step 6: Repeat steps 4-5 till all clothes are washed

Step 7: With the already washed clothes in the clean bucket of water, take each piece separately and agitate them in the clean water to remove the excess soap

Step 8: Ring the clean clothes out of water

Step 9: Turn inside out and hang on line to dry

 

*I want to challenge all of you, to see if you can also stay clean with such little water!*