Sanitation at Ginger Hall
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Ginger Hall is a primary school in Freetown, Sierra Leone with 1200 students. The latrine system there was not built to code and is both unsanitary and a hazard to the local groundwater. Needless to say, proper sanitation is critical to the health and comfort of the students who spend every day at this school.
Here's where you come in. My family is going to Sierra Leone this January and would like to help replace the system, in an effort led by my aunt Dorcas, a civil engineer. What we are able to build depends on how much money we're able to raise. If we can, we will build a Urine Diversion Dry Toilet (UDDT), based on a design by Engineers Without Borders. The UDDT diverts urine to provide nutrients for plants and converts solid waste into sterile fertilizer.
My family has a unique connection to Sierra Leone. My grandparents were missionaries there in the 1950s and '60s. My grandfather worked in agroforestry, developing projects for sustainable farming, and my grandmother worked as a doctor, treating illness and delivering hundreds of babies.
(Here are my grandparents more than sixty years later, after a lifetime of inspirational work and service around the world.)
My dad and his siblings were raised in Sierra Leone, but none of them have been back since 1969. On this trip will be my father Joel and my aunts Dorcas and Julie, who are returning for the first time in more than 40 years, along with me (Luke), my cousins Hannah and Jeremy, and my uncle Harry, who have never been before. The trip is being organized through the United Methodist Church by Don and Marilyn Griffith, who have been spearheading health and service projects in Sierra Leone for many years. This trip means so much to all of us for a variety of reasons, and we hope to make this project for Ginger Hall a meaningful and productive part of it. If this project is successful, it may become a pilot project for sustainable alternatives to pit latrines.
We thank you sincerely for your compassion and generosity!
In order to make the UDDT a reality, we need full funding before we leave on January 28th. All donations, no matter how small, are welcomed and hugely appreciated.
Here's where you come in. My family is going to Sierra Leone this January and would like to help replace the system, in an effort led by my aunt Dorcas, a civil engineer. What we are able to build depends on how much money we're able to raise. If we can, we will build a Urine Diversion Dry Toilet (UDDT), based on a design by Engineers Without Borders. The UDDT diverts urine to provide nutrients for plants and converts solid waste into sterile fertilizer.
My family has a unique connection to Sierra Leone. My grandparents were missionaries there in the 1950s and '60s. My grandfather worked in agroforestry, developing projects for sustainable farming, and my grandmother worked as a doctor, treating illness and delivering hundreds of babies.
(Here are my grandparents more than sixty years later, after a lifetime of inspirational work and service around the world.)
My dad and his siblings were raised in Sierra Leone, but none of them have been back since 1969. On this trip will be my father Joel and my aunts Dorcas and Julie, who are returning for the first time in more than 40 years, along with me (Luke), my cousins Hannah and Jeremy, and my uncle Harry, who have never been before. The trip is being organized through the United Methodist Church by Don and Marilyn Griffith, who have been spearheading health and service projects in Sierra Leone for many years. This trip means so much to all of us for a variety of reasons, and we hope to make this project for Ginger Hall a meaningful and productive part of it. If this project is successful, it may become a pilot project for sustainable alternatives to pit latrines.
We thank you sincerely for your compassion and generosity!
In order to make the UDDT a reality, we need full funding before we leave on January 28th. All donations, no matter how small, are welcomed and hugely appreciated.
Organizer
Luke Bradford
Organizer
Cambridge, MA
