Hereford schoolchildren build African Toilet
10 Nov 2011
Wellington Primary School children visited Acton Scott Working farm in Shropshire in October to build an Arborloo (translation from Latin: Tree toilet).
Hereford media company Catchermedia were there too, getting
children involved in the filming of the project. The DVD will then
be circulated to local schools ahead of World Toilet Day on
November 19th.
Children from Years 5 & 6 at Wellington Primary School have
been learning about waste, sustainability and the importance of
sanitation. Over 2 billion people worldwide have no access to
sanitation facilities. In Malawi, around one in ten children die
before they reach 5 years old from poor hygiene and
malnutrition.
Concern Universal visited the school in September with Media
Officer for The Gambia, Baai Jaabang. Children will dug the hole,
collected soil, wood ash and leaves, layout bricks, wove the hut
and thatched the roof.
The exhibit is on display at Acton Scott working farm to
demonstrate sustainable ways of improving sanitation in poorer
countries.
The ‘Power Loo’ (Arborloo- translation from Latin: Tree
toilet) provides a cost effective, environmentally friendly way of
sanitation, and creates fertiliser to enable trees to be planted in
the used soil or to grow vegetables with the fertiliser.
