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The goal of this project is to improve the health and sanitation for people in two villages, Jordan and Boom Creek, located in the Toledo District, Belize. With the guidance and training provided by a local non-profit, Sustainable Harvest International, 33 solar-dessication latrines will be build in the two villages. This sanitation project will help to decrease disease and parasites, improve child health, reduce environmental degradation, and improve knowledge of basic hygiene.
80% of the population of Toledo District relies on subsistance agriculture and people there have the lowest standard of living in the country. They suffer from malnutrition, lack of education, and other poverty-related problems.
Many villagers are suffering from parasites and diseases spread by the unsanitary results of having no latrines. Both villages experience flooding during during periods of high rainfall. Fecal matter from the bush around the village is redistributed after each flooding episode and the villagers, especially the children, invariably come into direct contact with the pollution. The pollution also affects the local environment and the water quality in the area.
Components of the project will include:
Providing materials, transportation of materials, guidance for families to build latrines, and health and sanitation training,
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