Project details

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40
TOILETS
FOR
SAN
MARTIN
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Title

40 TOILETS FOR SAN MARTIN

The project owner

Iris Verstappen

Location

  • leticia
  • Colombia

Goal summary

The project will install 40 basic sanitation units built from local resources in this remote indigenous village in the Colombian Amazon.

Project summary

To help this indigenous community eradicate preventable diseases and keep their community environment cleaner.

How

For less than €40 per beneficiary, this project will purchase and install the necessary toilet facilities for 50% of San Martin`s households. More than 250 people will be beneficiaries of this project. The project is highly sustainable as each family is responsible for the maintenance of their own toilet. During installation and community meetings, the importance of hygiene will be discussed. Toilet paper and hygienic towels will have to be collected in bags or baskets and burnt at least twice a week. This to avoid filling up the deposit hole and polluting the community environment with toilet waste. The required timber, gravel and sand will be collected from the rainforest around the community. A trained installer from a nearby town will be contracted for toilet-building. PVC tubes, cement and other non-forest resources will be bought in the town of Leticia.

Beneficiaries

  • 250
  • San Martin is a Tikuna indigenous community of about 500 inhabitants in the remote Colombian Amazon. 30%of the community is younger than 10 years old, and about 10% is older than 50. The community can be called remote because of its location away from the
  • Mixed

Why (Project owners drive)

Clean toilet facilities and are only too normal for many western countries, whereas for the majority of developmental countries these items are extremely scarce and tend to obstruct the road to a hygienic circumstances and a better health. With this project (providing for 50% of San Martin’s roughly 80 households), we only need to invest less than 40 euro per person to provide good toilet facilities for years to come!

Relation between the project partner (excecution) and the project owner (fundraising)

Non-Profit Organisation - Applicant is an Employer of Contact Person (Unpaid)

Budget

€9,733

Phases

  1. 15 TOILETS FOR SAN MARTIN

    • Purchase, transport and installe 15 toilet facilities in the remote Tikuna indigenous community of San Martin de Amacayacu. Toilet unit cost: 213 euro. Photos as well as payment confirmation will be handed in as proof; a visitors report whenever possible.
    • €3,650
    • 12

  2. 15 TOILETS FOR SAN MARTIN

    • Purchase, transport and installe 15 toilet facilities in the remote Tikuna indigenous community of San Martin de Amacayacu. Toilet unit cost: 213 euro. Photos as well as payment confirmation will be handed in as proof; a visitors report whenever possible.
    • €3,650
    • 12

  3. 10 TOILETS FOR SAN MARTIN

    • Purchase, transport and installe 10 toilet facilities in the remote Tikuna indigenous community of San Martin de Amacayacu. Toilet unit cost: 213 euro. Photos as well as payment confirmation will be handed in as proof; a visitors report whenever possible.
    • €2,433
    • 12