This is going to be a potty post 🙂
First potty topic….work has progressed on an additional latrine and shower area. Water will also be piped to this area for the shower….albeit a very cold shower!
Next potty issue….we are working on a “seat” for the latrine in the children’s home making it a bit more “western” in nature.
Another potty discussion….a digester chemical is used in the latrine to degrade the waste. We found out putting soap in the latrine counteracts the digester and with the children’s bathing areas draining into the same pit as the latrine is not good.
In the plans (when funds are available) we want to convert the existing two bathing areas into latrines and have all four latrines go into the same pit. Then adding three separate shower/bathing areas which will drain into their own, separate pit.
For now though, we are looking for ways to clean the latrine floors and walls without soap. We have to make sure whatever we use doesn’t interfere with the digester in any way.
That was certainly a lot of…..oh the jokes which could be made, but suffice it to say it’s all a fact of life and these are a few of the latrine issues we are dealing with at the moment.
This latrine isn’t on C4KK compound but I liked the set up of this photo 🙂