Mountain Trek To Tilory

Hi Friends-

We traveled on Monday to a remote northeast border town called Tilory (see the video:Toilets for Tilory). The estimated 200km trip took us ten hours after two breakdowns and a broken brake rotor-  Part of the Hispanola free zone this town of three thousand receives additional merchants and traders of a thousand per market day- generally Tuesday and Thursday. Without a public toilet facility, Tilory has a serious waste-management challenge.

In fact, few homes have access to their own toilets. Some residents share a common outdoor pit-latrine or outhouse. Most pit style latrines are located on hill tops above local food and Water supply (watch) most market attendees use the roadside bushes for toilet needs.

Basically this town has a ton of pee and poop that needs somewhere safe to go.

We located two public areas that are ripe for our dry-composting toilet system. One area volunteered for a community toilet is at the Disco- (again, in the video Toilets for Tilory)

Also- a local agronomist volunteered his property to house a composting area- and we will modify his existing outdoor pit latrine (slash chicken coop) into a dry composting toilet.

Our aim; return in October to provide education and support for a sustainable poop-composting program that can provide viable plant friendly compost for local agronomists. We plan to build 4 latrines and 2 composting sites. (for more on this process developed with GiveLove and its partners see: http://www.givelove.org/)

There is so much to tell- we have some great video of the trip over, the site and the beautiful town of Tilory-

More to come on our micro-loans and Updates on the Tapis Vert camp at Bois Neuf Field.

To summarize; recycling poop into compost for farmers and backyard gardners in a nearly inaccessible Haiti community-