For someone living in these conditions day in day out that has never known any other way of life and probably has limited knowledge about the benefits of sanita

For someone living in these conditions day in day out that has never known any other way of life and probably has limited knowledge about the benefits of sanitation to health in general cellphones have a much bigger and more obvious positive impact on daily life than a flush toilet. A flush toilet is an incremental improvement on a solved problem. A cellphone on the other hand makes things possible that were unthinkable before it esp. since there probably aren't any landline phone or telegraph networks in a lot of these place. If I were living in a hut using a bucket and the ditch as my toilet and you came to me and said do you want this phone or this flush toilet I'm pretty sure I would take the phone in a heart beat.