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Looking for funding
This is the second year of the project and we are still looking for funding, so as a reminder if you wish to help out, your participation would go to the following activities:
- construction of dry toilets: materials, labour... - education on sanitation and business to the community - construction of a public school toilet - public events to promote dry toilet technology and the community’s work to name a few...
This link will bring you to our funding page on gofundme.com:
http://www.gofundme.com/sanitationenterprisetan
it takes 5 minutes and your contribution is highly appriciated!
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INDEX award nomination
Last week our dry toilet project was nominated for the INDEX, design to improve life award. From their website the award is described as “the biggest and probably most important design award in the world worth €500,000. The importance lies in the unique, over-arching theme of Design to Improve Life. A concept enabling design to be used as a tool to address the world’s biggest challenges, and has established INDEX: Award as a global, inspirational design beacon.”.
The project is nominated under the CATEGORY of community and CHALLENGE infrastructure.
A friend said to me as I shared the info with her “I truly think you have good chances, your project is so great!”. First of all thank you and let’s hope that she is right, let’s also cross toes, fingers and hair!
you can find more about the award and nomination here:
http://award.designtoimprovelife.dk/nomination/963
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New household toilets!
It's been a while since our last update from the field.
But here are our newest news!
Phast Ujenzi has been ver active and persevering, today we have about 10 more toilets to be finished in a very short time.
They are all private toilets except for one which will be used for a public building, namely a local church.
All are dry toilets with urine diversion, made with a bootle-wall technique at the base, interlocking bricks for the walls and galvanised sheets for the roof. All have a shower.
They are serving houses with mostly 2 to 4 households and 10 to 20 people are using the one toilet.
It has been a long and difficult process as the technology Phast Ujenzi is working with is new for them and the community, slowing the construction and adoption processes at the same time. But with the Pilot helping Phast Ujenzi has been able to spread the word and bring improved sanitation to an additonal aprox 80 people. A drop in the ocean you might say... Let's talk about that once we are ready to rumble!
Next we will have an update on the toilet interface...
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The Pilot toilet video is finally here, thank you Kokwa Productions!
Thank you all for following our adventures with the "Sanitation improvement and social enterprise in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania" project!
It has been a very fruitful year!!!
By clicking the video link you'll be able to see part of what we have been doing and some of the achievements of this year "the Pilot toilet".
Zita, Nathaly and Ulpu.
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Phast Ujenzi can pitch their sanitation business!
Phast Ujenzi learnt how to pitch their business and to talk about what they do. We held a workshop to remember about the main elements of the sanitation business.
The idea was to go through the main elements of the business model and to learn about what it is important to know and say when explaining business to an investor or to any Company, NGO, or other stakeholder interested.
The results were really good. Phast Ujenzi members prepared very good pitches and presented to all of us.
And a great thing: we had three business name and logo proposals! They are very nice :)
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Visiting pilot toilet
After meeting local authorities we had the chance to visit our pilot toilets. We went to Keko Youth Group house, where toilets were built. The toilets look amazing! Feedback from users was very possitive. They are all very happy with their beautiful, well-functioning toilets.
And one great thing! They have started collecting urine and using it for one banana tree. What the leader of Keko Youth told us is that the banana tree looks more beautiful and healthier after using urine as fertilizer. They are very happy and we were really excited!
Soon they will start using urine on other parts of the garden. In the pictures, you can see the pilot, and the banana tree!
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Meeting with Local Authorities
Last week we visited the office of the Chairman of Keko Machungwa subward to talk about relationship with Phast Ujenzi, cooperation with the current Project, and future relations once the business starts. It was a fruitful meeting full of ideas. There were also members of the Health Commitee members and Phast Ujenzi representatives.
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Sanitation Social Enterprise is taking off!
Urban transitioners in visiting Dar es Salaam during these days. I (Nathaly) will be advising Phast Ujenzi on how to proceed with business idea. Center for Community Innitiatives, CCI, is also providing support. Paola, who made the Project video, is also on board, and she will be taking lots of pictures and videos to show to all of you!
The trip will take around one month, and there will be meetings with stakeholders, workshops on business and urine use, visits to places where PU will build dry sanitation facilities, and much more!
Keep connected with our blog! We will post updates when possible.
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CONSTRUCTION UPDATE #1
Last week in Keko Machungwa, Phast Ujenzi, and other members from other federation groups have started the construction of two more household toilets!
These two toilets are for houses wih 10 people and will be built on the same principles as the Pilot toilet.
Although these two will have interlocking brick walls as superstructure material instead of Mabanzi (wood).
We are all very excited about the progress! Some days ago they were already laying the first bottle layers for the chambers.
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Fundraising #3
On the 20th of September we sold Pulla and coffee at Myllypuro rugby field and made 94€ for the sanitation project. It was a joint effort with the Mamas rugby's Sanni Virtanen who was collecting funds for the U19 rugby girls in Uganda. Thank you Helsinki Rugby club for letting us sell that day and Spoon Trading for donating the coffee! It was a great success and today even more people are aware of both projects. Go Mamas Rugby, go Huussi Ry!
http://www.spoontradingfinland.com/
https://www.facebook.com/themamasrugby
http://www.helsinkirugby.org/
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Fundraising # 2
On September the 7th, we went to Hietalahti flee market to sell some beautiful handcraft from Tanzania and India. We sold Tanzanian fabrics (batik, kitenge...), Masai fabrics, baskets, make up bags, and many other things. We also told people about our project and explained how they can be part of it.
In total, we collected 112 euros that Zita already put on the page. It was again a great experience, and we want to thank everybody who visited us and contributed to this cause.
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FUNDRAISING #1
Keko restaurant on Restaurant day! Eat and make an impact! A great way to tell about our project and gather some more funds. We spent Sunday 17th of August selling food during the restaurant day in Helsinki. People were interested in the project and they were also excited about the food we offered. This time, we had a very delicious soup with exotic taste, tasty corn bread from Colombia, and sweet brigadeiros from Brazil. We hope next time we can have the ingredients to offer some Tanzanian food! We collected in total 230 Euros, Zita just put them on our page as you can see :) Thank you Elina, Paola, Janne, and Juho for such a big help! And thanks to everyone who came to buy our food and to contribute to this cause.
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DRY TOILET TECHNOLOGY
Why dry toilets?
It's an improved sanitation technology, it is safe (the faeces do not come in contact with water), cheap to maintain, allows to makes use of human discharges as fertilizers in farms or gardens, allows communities like Phast Ujenzi to build sanitation enterprises on its outputs and does not necessitate large and costly infrastructures.
For an area like Dar es Salaam, where the water tables are high, about 2m meters and less under the surface using pit latrines is unsafe; water may infilttrate the pits and continue its way possibly to nearby water points (wells) contaminating those or to rivers and creeks. Water is a great vector for diseases like cholera and diahrrea from which people suffer in these areas. On top of that people in poor settlements often do not have enough money to get their pits emptied so when the rains come, they open their latrines and let the rain flush away its contents. It is during the rainy seasons that people get more frequently ill. Water is everywhere.
Dry toilets on the other hand are built above the ground and the faeces kept away from water and composted for use as a natural fertilizer, there is much less risk of contamination, that is if the composting is done right!
But how does it work?
Urine diverting dry toilets (UDDT): dry toilets where urine is separated at the source and collected in separate containers.
On the graph above you see that urine and faeces are separated. Faeces drop into a chamber and urine is collected in 20l containers.
Only one of the chambers is used at once, during one year when it is full you close it and start using the second chamber. During that time the first chamber composts and the second chamber fills up.
When chamber number two is full (after the second year) you empty the first chamber from its magnificent compost and start using that chamber again while the second chamber is composting away.....................
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AN INAUGURATION
A festivity, a party!
More than 250 people made their way through the narrow pathes of Keko Machungwa that day. A DJ playing music, dancers, acrobats, a master of ceremony, speeches, dances and performances animated the event all along! It was a real show and many people and kids started from Keko Machungwa and Keko Juu gradually accumulated by the tents to try to see the performances and listen to the speeches.
All came invited or attracted by the noise and abnormal amount of people from outisde to see a project that has been great and will certainly have an even greater impact in the near future! All federations in Dar es Salaam were represented, the Pilot is now in these people's minds, maybe fermenting into more plans or waiting to be able to build a similar one.
The vice mayor of Temeke and other officials from the ward and subward were also present allowing the dialogue between the federation's actions and authorities to follow their course. M.vice mayor was very pleased with the project and even offered me "Keko citizenship".
Direct stake holders, future stake holders but also the media were very present! I was amazed! At first I saw one TV crew, then came another and then another one and while being completely amazed and even crying out of joy I realized my friend Frank working at TV1 was on his way as well. 4 TVs, 2 newspapers and 2 radios covered the event. Few days later Hezron (CCI) told me it seemed the info was all over the news!
Overall we got excellent feedback and comments from other federation members and authorities, even from some of the TV crews! Everyone sounds very proud and confident that the project, if taken to a larger scale can really change things in Dar es Salaam.
People are very hopefull and happy about the ideas and technologies used on the toilet. Ndimbwelu, the leader of Vingunguti's sanitation group (next group to be part of the project) was impatient to start building with the bottles and use urine as a fertilizer.
Thank you Phast Ujenzi, Hezron, Tim and CTN, Kokwa productions, Peter, Stella and boys of the youth centre for the great Pilot and event.
We all worked very hard and now we are on the road for 18 more.
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Beyond the toilet.
Let's uncover part of the bigger story the project is involved with.
In 2013, February, our team met, Johnny Viktar aka. CTN. He was introduced to us by Phast Ujenzi (sanitation group). About 40 years old, well built and smiling warmly at us, he owns a house on the lower parts of Keko Machungwa, a fish pond and plans to have poultry soon. He wants to sell the fish from the pond, the chicken and ducks, for addtional income and extending activities.
Accessing his plot is an adventure; leave the main street of Keko Machungwa and loose yourself in the one-person-narrow pathways leading you down to the river (tiny creek with unsanitary water). His house stands along that river to the west side, a garden to the north and east, making it one of the biggest plots in the area. It is here that we intend to start the project - Phast Ujenzi would use part of the space for gardening and testing urine and the Pilot toilet will be built to provide the urine and compost.
The walls of his house are humid and the floor almost wet. Nevertheless CTN created here a place of hope. A few years ago he started the "keko machungwa youth center", a place where young - mostly male - drug addicts can get away and start afresh by executing small day to day jobs and living in a community. Some live under his roof, some come for the day, CTN protects and helps them - solve issues, find jobs, get involved in the larger community life.
Before CTN started the youth center he was himself a drug user, someone helped him out and today he wants "to help the youth the same way I have been helped".
Everyone respects and knows him in the area. Walking between the houses of Keko Machungwa and Keko Juu one can hear "CTNi, mambo!", and other warm greetings of other settlers directed towards him. He enjoys the fame and respect but one can really see why, when spending time besides him, he treats people well and respects everyone, he is soft with all but wouldn't let anything bad happen to his boys or family, even to us from the project "if you know CTN you are safe!" said to me Chris who is now the secretary of the Youth center.
So today, Keko Machungwa youth center is part of the Tanzania federation of urban poor, more than 30 young people from the surroundings find peace in his house and he has plans to build a hostel and carpenting workshop, even a nursery. The toilet has been planned so that his vision of the future is included and the capacity over calculated for the current use, but fitting, once he expands his activities. The fact that the first toilet was built there gave the project a huge impulse as CTN is a personnality in the area but it also gave the youth centre the possibility to grow and have access to proper toilets and a shower, replacing the old pit latrine adjacent to the house. All the boys and CTN have been very involved in the construction of the toilet. They were the ones filling most of the bottles, also the ones finishing the toilet with CTN and Peter once I had left (May) and now they are the ones using it!
CTN's involvement went beyond expectations, he is a carpenter and full of energy and ideas and even thought not part of Phast Ujenzi his work and ideas have a big impact on the whole project. When the toilet was completed in the end of May. He spent many days, almost every day working on it and making it his. Adding doors made of bottles and sticks, adding a rail, covering the inside of the toilet and adapting it to his own comfort.
The bottle doors were a great surprise and actually showed me once again how much creative potential there is in Keko! His "invention" of the bottle door was so exciting and its price so interesting we decided to include the technique into the wall structure options for the future toilets.
Zita Floret.
Photos and image by Zita Floret.
1. ctn in red shirt.
2. ctn in the centre with the boys of the youth center in the back.
3. ctn and I by the toilet.
4. CTN's plot.
5. bottle doors to become a new wall structure for the next toilets (cheap!!!)
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PHAST UJENZI: UJENZI, ELIMU, BIASHARA, MAONYESHO!
Phast Ujenzi: construction, education, business and information.
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