By BRBest | Regenerative Solutions Specialist
This past July we renewed our partnership with UNICEF to continue constructing 'Ecological Bathrooms' in the Shipibo-Konibo community of Nueva Betania (pop. 391). Over the next three months our Ecological Sanitation team, lead by Orestes Rengifo Cauper, will be constructing 60 complete bathrooms; one for each household in the community. This will be third of four UNICEF partnership communities that will colloborate in the construction of Ecological Bathrooms community-wide.
Nueva Betania floods seasonally, so each bathroom includes an elevated double-vault composting toilet, a bathing platform, and a spout for clean water. The bathing platform is built atop a 'banana circle' greywater garden to filter and reuse the washwater. The whole system is built above the 30-year flood line to ensure that it can be used year-round.
Community members coming together to collaborate with Orestes and his team on all steps of the project.
This project was born from the collective work of Orestes, his team, and myself from the first pilot composting toilet we built together in 2008. Later in 2012, Orestes shared with me that it was his dream to help every Shipibo-Konibo recieve an Ecological Bathroom. Support from people like you have made it possible for us to follow this collective dream that is becoming a reality.
As our project developed from pilot to viable solution we are now seeing it being adopted by local government municipalities, thanks to the policy work of our ally UNICEF. We hope to soon guide this project to the community of Santa Clara to complement the Regenerative Agriculture and Education that is taking place.
Thank you all for the support!
With gratitude,
Links:
Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
