Improving Home Sanitation
Goals
To allow access to the unused labor hours from the unemployed individuals willing to join the Mutual Aid Group that focuses on basic toilet facilities installations. Mutual Aid Groups organized in this area of focus will help improve sanitation and hygiene, attack diseases, increase the number of persons and families using improved toilet facilities, and improve health and comfort.
Overview
- This Mutual Aid Group consists of skilled construction workers, plumbers, and sanitation officers who will build toilet facilities and help improve sanitation and hygiene in public schools and private homes. They provide their skills and their labor, and the beneficiaries provide the necessary materials. They use their tools, and their transportation means. They may be assigned to work with the local sanitation officers. They receive a monthly participation incentive from Reciprocitas and weekly training. A Mutual Aid Group Facilitator supervises them. The Mutual Aid Group facilitators receive training to conduct groups and keep records. They are not subject-matter experts.
- A Communal Section may have more than one Mutual Aid group focusing on improved sanitation and hygiene. Individuals and families who have received this service, in return, help their nearest neighbors build or improve their toilet facilities by committing 10 hours of work per week to this work. They also participate in constructing similar facilities in public schools to help improve overall sanitation and hygiene.
Job Description
- They help choose the kinds of toilets that are most appropriate to local conditions.
- They build simple pit latrines connected to septic tanks, container-based bathrooms, single pit, and double pit toilets.
- They upgrade existing toilets and build new clean and standard toilets.
- They install toilets in public schools and private houses.
- They apply the recommended essential criteria for a sanitary toilet.