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Create sustainable sanitation system for rural community in Haiti

Create sustainable sanitation system for rural community in Haiti

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CHALLENGE DETAILS: Hope for Haiti needs to create a proper sanitation system that is green, hygienic, can generate a fuel source and become income-generating for a rural community in Haiti. Access would improve health outcomes and provide a source of alternative and sustainable energy.

ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW: Hope for Haiti's mission is to improve the quality of life for the Haitian people, particularly children, through education, nutrition and healthcare. They support 40 schools, 10,000 students and 400 teachers, 3 nutrition centers and they're own infirmary Les Cayes in southern Haiti. We are working towards sustainability and hope to have a model community from which to work. The attached photos are from a small community in rural southern Haiti - http://bit.ly/sZNiQ5.

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PRIZE SPONSOR: PeopleTowels - the newest concept in sustainability, and the latest in eco-chic fashion (https://www.peopletowels.com).
PRIZE RECIPIENT DETAILS: Hope for Haiti will select the three individuals whose ideas help most.
CHALLENGE END DATE: 12pm PT on June 22, 2012

PRIZE YOU CAN WIN: Winner will have 700 hand hygiene kits donated in your name to Hope For Haiti and will receive a Clean Living Tool Kit, featuring your pick of designs for a 5 Day Supply of PeopleTowels, (browse choices at https://www.peopletowels.com), plus waste saving, clean living tools including 2 Eco-Sacks and a carry clip, organic soap, a reusable dry cleaning garment bag, reusable water bottle and shopping bags.

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  1. Courtney Timm

    Congratulations to the winner! Posted by: Courtney Timm

    • On Aug 1, 2012, 11:30:48 AM Central Daylight Time
    • Topics: (None)

    Congratulations to Benjamin Brink! Your idea has been selected as a winner by Hope for Haiti for the "Create sustainable sanitation system for rural community in Haiti" challenge and you will be rewarded. The challenge sponsor, PeopleTowels, has been contacted and will be in touch with you to sort out the details on getting the prize in your hands. If no contact has been made by August 15th, please let us know.

    Thank you for being a Change Agent!

  2. Courtney Timm
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    Hope For Haiti.pdf (6.1 MB) Posted by: Courtney Timm

    • On Oct 27, 2011, 10:44:49 AM Central Daylight Time
    • Topics: (None)

    The attached photo is from a small community in rural southern Haiti.

    1. Benjamin Brink

      Benjamin Brink on Jan 16, 2012, 5:57:39 PM Central Standard Time

      Coordinate with Maison Henri Deschamps Data Center http://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-2420-haiti-technology-maison-henri-deschamps-build-a-data-center.html or other IT providers in Haiti.

      Data Centers use lots of water for cooling. Although the MHD DC will be in Port-au-Prince, I'm sure RETEL understands the importance of business continuity, which can be achieved through distributed resources. In essence, instead of building one DC in downtown MTPP/PAP area, build a central unit, but have other units in outer regions of Haiti. Each unit should be capable of running the entire operation by itself (at near capacity), but for the most part, distribute the services equally, to keep systems reliably available and running cooler (lower overhead with heating/cooling etc). Build a well with each unit for cooling purposes and as a local water supply. Work with Engineers without Borders etc to build green water-treatment facilities.

    2. Benjamin Brink

      Benjamin Brink on Jan 16, 2012, 11:36:14 PM Central Standard Time

      Here's an Engineer's without Border's Haiti project for Portland, Ore: http://www.ewbportland.org/haiti

    3. Benjamin Brink

      Benjamin Brink on Jan 16, 2012, 11:40:57 PM Central Standard Time

      ps. I'm sure RETEL has their own idea about how to subdivide their DC into individual units. Having participated in a DC start-up similar to this idea (still incubating) with an open-architecture, open-innovation, open-hardware; I'd be glad to collaborate with RETEL and EWB-PDX with material to help shed light on platform-independent integrated design issues.

  3. Aysia Wright

    Start with Sustainable Hand Hygiene Posted by: Aysia Wright

    • On Oct 28, 2011, 11:46:57 AM Central Daylight Time
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    One place to start is with basic hand hygiene to help prevent the outbreak and spread of infectious disease, which takes over 5 million lives annually in communities lacking supplies to simply wash their hands. Reducing preventable illness and death with better hand hygiene lowers the strain on their limited community resources, allowing them to focus on establishing, building and growing sustainable hygiene & sanitation infrastructure. A sustainable way to do that is by using recycled soaps collected from hotels and the hospitality industry by Clean the World and reusable, personal hand towels made from Fair Trade, organic cotton by PeopleTowels!