The Otji-Toilet goes Haiti
Original, in german, at: www.ali-hensel.de
The EcoSur Network plans to bring the Otji-Toilet to the Caribbean. In Haiti, where the infrastructure is weak not only from the great earthquake in January of this year, the Otji-Toilet should definitively contribute toward improving hygienic conditions. The climatic conditions of that Caribbean country appear to be appropriate for the the dry toilet developed in Namibia. Thus, EcoSur together with its European partners will install a workshop to produce Otji-toilets.
Not only will the project bring dignified and environmentally friendly sanitary installations, it will install a workshop to produce toilets in the town of Liancourt and educate young people to build the toilets. Thus, it will provide opportunities and future perspectives outside the capital city of Port-au-Prince, hoping to avoid the return of earthquake refugees to the larger urban area.
In the near future Peter Arndt, manager of the Clay House Project in Otjiwarongo, will travel to Haiti to introduce this technology, hitherto unknown in that region. To educate the group of 20 youths, he can draw upon the support from EcoSur specialists from Nicaragua, Cuba and Switzerland, some of whom will remain onsite and be able to support the project with advice and assistance.
It is worth mentioning that the Clay House Project in Otjiwarongo is an EcoSur Network partner and that Peter Arndt is the creative and driving force behind development of this dry toilet.
