Ecological Sanitation in Haiti
a trip by Monika Roy
From: February 1st 2012
Until: ongoing
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Twalet Sech
February 4th 2012
I'm volunteering here in Haiti for a few months with an organization called SOIL - Sustainable Organic Integrated Livlihoods. SOIL works to empower the community on dealing with sanitation issues from a holistic perspective. Traditional sanitation systems are a challenge here because water is an extremely scarce resource. We've got dry toilets set up in various communities and camps from the earthquake, and collect the toilet material to process at a composting site. The diverted urine is diluted and used to fertilize gardens and the finished compost is sold and given back to the people.
Everyone is extraordinarily nice and I'm learning Creole fast - there are only 3 international staff plus me, and the other 15 or so people are all Haitian. In the coming few months I'll be learning the operations here, doing administrative support, conducting agricultural experiments with finished humanure and urine = exploring ecological sanitation engineering. We're based in a neighborhood adjacent to Port au Prince but I'm hoping to get outside the city and explore other parts of Haiti!
Trip Length: 12 years
Blog Entries: 8
Photos: 114
Words: 4487
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