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Download fileTeaching ecological sanitation in a school environment in Zimbabwe
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:09 authored by Annie Shangwa, Peter R. MorganThis paper reports on a pilot study being carried out at the Chisungu Primary School, Harare,
Zimbabwe, where children are taught the basics of ecological sanitation and hygiene in class and then
taught how to build a range of low cost toilets. These include toilets made from bricks. The range
includes simple toilets like the Arborloo (tree toilet), and also various types of VIP (Ventilated improved
pit toilet). The children themselves do the construction work. In addition the children are taught the value
of applying urine to food crops like green vegetables and maize in experiments undertaken in the school
garden. The project is an attempt to provide a very practical and hands on approach to teaching low cost
sanitation, recycling and hygiene in an environment which has enormous potential for replication. The
school, with its dedicated teaching staff and an enthusiastic younger generation is perhaps one of the
most ideal learning centres and dissemination points for low cost sanitation that exist.
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- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Research Unit
- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)