WASH INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT
(CRITICAL ACTION LINKED TO WATER AND SANITATION)
INTRODUCTION
It is a Project financed by Manos Unidas to Cáritas Makeni, which is the one who manages the schools of the water and sanitation actions. The technical project stems from a prototype made by the HD_LAB CEU in 2019 (in the Masuba and St. Francis schools). The final design has been developed within the framework of the Postgraduate Course of the ICHaB (Institute for Cooperation in Basic Habitability) of the UPM, by Fernando Navarrete, Sandra Muñoz de Solano and Bárbara Díaz, during the 2020-21 academic year, with the coordination of Daniel Pérez and Luis Perea. The three have been able to join the trip and actively participate in the actions linked to the Project. In the management of the project, together with the consultations with the technical teams of Manos Unidas, collaboration has been made with the Water and Sanitation group of the ETSII UPM; through the Africa Platform.
On the same prototype, the solution is adapted to the conditions of each school. In the case of Kolokolo, existing latrines are rebuilt and new ones attached. In Teko, the final location was yet to be defined, after talks with the military in the adjoining area. In this school, as can be seen in the image, there is a latrine area, but it is located on the other side of the road. During the visit it is verified that they are in a state of abandonment without maintenance and in terrible hygienic conditions. In the case of Panlap, the works on the latrines have already begun and they could be visited during the trip.
PROTOTYPE
All interventions have a set of 5 normal cabins + 1 for the disabled, for each gender. Those for the disabled serve teachers and students in period, which have a clothes drying area. The complex includes sinks, a rainwater collection tank, a tower with an elevated tank, a septic tank plus percolation and a 60-meter well. The circuit from a well to an elevated tank and sinks guarantees drinking water. The rainwater collection tank, between the toilet modules, is used for the drainage to the septic tank from the toilets.
This letrine is a protoype made at St. Francis School