Project Report
| Jan 3, 2017
Constructing additional rainwater harvesters
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Rainwater harvester construction
Dear Friends,
Greetings for the New Year and may I warmly thank you for the amazing water and sanitation activities we did in 2016. I am also proud to say that we are one of the very few non-government organization that is left here in Leyte supporting typhoon survivors. I believe that with the extent of the damage, rehabilitation will take years to finish, what with other typhoons affecting the area although not as strong as Haiyan.
Aside from low-cost, durable and aspirational toilets, we expanded our initiative to constructing giant rainwater harvesters made of iron and concrete and install these in water-deficient mountain communities. The year 2016 we are able to construct 22 units, with the help of other donors aside from Global Giving. We do this with minimum operating cost since we already have a permanent office in Albuera Municipality and local dedicated expert masons and carpenters.
Again thank you so much and hoping we can surpass the breakthroughs in 2016.
Mabuhay!
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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Nov 10, 2016
Continue with latrine construction in Albuera
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Low-cost toilet onstruction
Dear Friends and Supporters,
Greetings and thank you very much for your continuing support in order for us to provide safe sanitation via our aspirational, low-cost, durable toilets to poor typhoon survivors. We already have our permanent office and training center located in Albuera, Leyte and we are making this as our base for our various initiatives in the area. As to this time, there are also many poor families who have no toilet and the need is indeed dire. Those without toilets defecate in the fields or do it in the shoreline. This reporting period, we continue to provide toilets to selected very poor families. We got also direct donations coming from friends and we use this together with donations coming from Global Giving. Individual donors would like to support us since they can see actual results from what we are doing. This reporting period we are able to build a total of 32 toilets for 32 families located in Albuera Municipality.
Again thank you very much.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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Aug 16, 2016
Training students how to use and manage dry toilet
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Training students in Albuera
Dear Friends and Supporters,
Warm greetings and thank you very much for your kind support to our project to provide safe sanitation to typhoon survivors in Leyte. This reporting period we implemented 3 sets of urine diverting dehydration toilets to 3 schools in Albuera Municipality. The urine diverting dehydration toilet or simply "ecosan" is designed in areas where water is deficient. The Municipality of Albuera is such kind of municipality with water very scarce. Aside from being operational in water deficient condition, the human waste can be used after proper storage and treatment as fertilizer for the flowers and trees growing around the school grounds. This is a groundbreaking model and is considered a "first" in Leyte.
Together with the introduction of the toilet, we trained the students who will be users on its proper use and management. Total number of students trained is 730. We hope that this model can be a source of inspiration for others to implement similar initiatives.
Again thank you very much for your kind support.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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