Volunteers needed to create awesome toilets
DIEPSLOOT- Health Habitat, World Skills Foundation and WASSUP are calling on the community to help improve Diepsloot's toilet facilities.
The project called Awesome Toilets, which is part of the Diepsloot sanitation project for 2014, aims to upgrade 10 communal toilets in Diepsloot. These toilets will be upgraded with new designs and fittings, and a series of data loggers and water meters to capture information on water loss and toilet usage will be installed. They will compare the information gathered from the loggers and meters to another set of 10 controlled toilets which have not been upgraded.
The World Skills Foundation is a UK-based organisation which brings together people with a shared interest in skills development; Health Habitat is an Australian-based organisation which specialises in building homes for disadvantaged communities; and WASSUP, which stands for the Water, Amenities, Sanitation Services, and Upgrading Programme, is a community-based programme that repairs and maintains communal ablution facilities in Diepsloot’s Extension 1, home to an estimated 50 000 people living in shacks.
WASSUP is encouraging members of the community to get involved by volunteering to work on the project. The skills that they need are design, material sourcing, building, reporting, data installation and gophering.
The work for the project will be shared out between five teams. Team one will work on plumbing, team two will work on drains and basins, team three will work on patchwork and painting, team four will work on doors and locking, and team five will log data and review the system.
From 1 to 10 March, volunteers will be involved in the preparation phase. They will assist WASSUP with refining construction design ideas, sourcing materials and general gophering. Volunteers during this phase can work in their own time.
From 10 to 18 March volunteers can assist experienced Health Habitat members with on-site construction. Volunteers will be able to select the days they are able to work during this phase.
For more information on the project or to sign up as a volunteer contact Jennifer van den Bussche.
Details: jennifer@stickysituations.org
