Project Report
| Mar 18, 2019
Conducting baseline data gathering
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Baseline assessment
Dear Friend,
Warm greetings and thank you very much for your continuing generous support to our project providing low-cost sanitation for survivors of the strongest typhoon this century. The typhoon has caused death and destruction to large areas in Leyte and Samar and until now, local residents, especially those living in remote communities have difficulty in providing for their basic needs. Most especially the need for sanitation facilities is the least of priority not only by them but also by local and provincial government agencies concerned about the matter. The appeal for support for the typhoon has waned already as other disasters are being responded to around the world. This reporting period, we focus our attention to bringing traditional, small-scale support organizations to help in the continuing rehabilitation process. We are happy to report that we were able to invite 3 organizations to conduct baseline visit to our areas in preparation for packaging a project focusing on water and sanitation.
Hoping for your continuing support.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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Dec 19, 2018
Training on toilet bowl production
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Toilet bowl training
Dear Friend,
Warm greetings and thank you very much for your generous support to our project providing low-cost sanitation to typhoon survivors in Leyte. The typhoon event has long gone already but the problem of sanitation especially in terms of the ownership of latrines is proving to be difficult to solve. One problem is the lack of government support and another problem is that it is more convenient for people to defecate in the open and move on to other places rather than use a latrine. During this reporting period and together with local village leaders we train masons how to make a toilet bowl. Most often the toilet bowl is difficult to procure but it can be manufactured locally. We are already experts in this one and so we focus our attention to training activities. This reporting period we are able to train a total of 25 village masons how to make a toilet bowl. They will serv as the experts in their community.
Again, thank you very much for your support.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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Sep 24, 2018
Establishing toilet production facility
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Village production facility
Dear Friend,
Warm greetings and thank you very much for your generous support to our project providing low-cost toilets to Typhoon Haiyan survivors. The typhoon has long gone already but still there are so many survivors needing decent sanitation facilities. There is always the problem of spread of water-borne diseases when toilet is lacking and this has to be addressed. The government makes the provision of toilet facilities to very poor beneficiaries of very low priority and sometimes regulations are promulgated but without proper implementation. This reporting period, we aimed at providing toilet production facilities in 2 villages with the idea that low implementation of toilets is because the needed hardware is not accessible. We tapped the support of village leaders so that they provide the manpower and we provide the basic hardware materials. The local village will then sell the toilet hardware and then use the sales in order to produce more. In this manner the project is sustainable. We hope to make this as a model for several villages here and we will write a case study about this.
Hoping for your continuing generous support.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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