A few days ago, we finished construction of our second pilot site in Kibera. As one of the largest slums in the world, Kibera is home to nearly 1m people. The 3 sq. miles that Kibera stretches is divided into 8 villages. We are working in Soweto West with our community partner Carolina for Kibera. The pilot site will be operated by the Zulu Youth Group.
We’ve spent the past couple of posts explaining the model and the design. So we’ll get straight to the pictures this time. This time around we documented the construction process in detail to show exactly what it takes to put together a prefabricated ferrocement ecosan toilet in the slums of Nairobi.
Ani, you guys are doing some amazing work. I love following this blog… although some of the pictures scare the heck out of me. Either way it really helps make it very apparent how great the need is over in Kenya. Looking forward to catching up this year!
Hi Sanergy crew. Nice photo sequence. It looks like an UN-toilet! Like a personal peacekeeper;-) Excellent project indeed. Curious how people feel about such stand-alone facilities from a personal security point of view?–Joost
@Jarrod: Thanks for the encouragement!@Joost: Stand alone facilities are relatively common around here, though in much more rudimentary structures than ours. Since there will be a full-time person operating these toilets, security issues should be minimized. It is exactly issues like these that we are eager to test out during the pilot phase and revise our assumptions based on the reality.
[...] waste processing into biogas and fertilizer – we walked around the room, showing photos of the existing toilets in Kibera and Lunga Lunga. Well-versed on sanitation, the group peppered us with questions. Ani and Rose [...]
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I think this is great and wonder if you’ve been in touch w/SOIL in Haiti (http://www.oursoil.org/). The addition of energy generation seems like a valuable benefit missing from their approach. Cheers!