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here was provided by Alisa Keesey, GiveLove Program Director, and Samuel Souza,
GiveLove Research and Training Coordinator (Keesey and Souza 2018).
As stated in the 2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the achievement of total sanitation is to develop solid waste containment, disposal, and reuse
alternatives. GiveLove develops container/bucket-based compost sanitation toilet
systems in communities that typically practice open defecation or the use of pit
latrines. GiveLove works with the given community in identifying ongoing, easily
accessible and locally available shredded carbon sources as the carbon component
and bulking agent of the compost system. GiveLove collaborates with government
entities, communities, schools, and other nonprofit organizations to provide simple,
low-cost, extremely low technology, non-urine diverting compost toilets and on-site
compost processing (Keesey and Souza 2018).
GiveLove initiated the Green School model with the objective of developing
school-based compost toilets and hygiene programs as an entry point of more
expansive community humanure compost program development. GiveLove also
provides training on using the finished compost products to grow vegetables, trees,
and medicinal plants for consumption and sale - working to foster more resilient
and self-sufficient circular economy communities (Keesey and Souza 2018).
At schools, students, teachers, and administrators must learn how to use and
manage the compost toilets. With this, everyone learns the science of composting as
GiveLove works with all participants in on-site compost system establishment.
Projects are introduced step-by-step and initially focused on small pilot programs.
GiveLove notes widespread skepticism at the onset of the compost toilet introduction and application of the finished compost product, but full adoption is often
quickly achieved once users experience the benefits of this full cycle biosolid waste
management alternative (Keesey and Souza 2018).
The compost systems are a connecting tool for sustainable community development and a learning-by-doing model in addressing community health impacts and
environmental challenges. The programs are designed for illiterate or low-literacy
people and for community information exchange and education dissemination. The
organization encourages hands-on, peer-to-peer learning and ongoing problemsolving. With pathogen killing effective humanure compost program development,
the individual becomes an empowered agent of change, cultivating water purifying,
healthy soil food producing, climate change mitigating, self-reliant and resilient
communities” (Keesey and Souza 2018).
3.3.6 Case Study 6: The Need and Potential for Ghana
Ghana is a coastal nation in Central Africa, with a population of approximately 27
million, high poverty rates, and relatively low gross domestic product (GDP). With
a large portion of the population in the agricultural sector and limited agricultural
technologies and resources, the country is particularly vulnerable to climate change
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here was provided by Alisa Keesey, GiveLove Program Director, and Samuel Souza,
GiveLove Research and Training Coordinator (Keesey and Souza 2018).
As stated in the 2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the achievement of total sanitation is to develop solid waste containment, disposal, and reuse
alternatives. GiveLove develops container/bucket-based compost sanitation toilet
systems in communities that typically practice open defecation or the use of pit
latrines. GiveLove works with the given community in identifying ongoing, easily
accessible and locally available shredded carbon sources as the carbon component
and bulking agent of the compost system. GiveLove collaborates with government
entities, communities, schools, and other nonprofit organizations to provide simple,
low-cost, extremely low technology, non-urine diverting compost toilets and on-site
compost processing (Keesey and Souza 2018).
GiveLove initiated the Green School model with the objective of developing
school-based compost toilets and hygiene programs as an entry point of more
expansive community humanure compost program development. GiveLove also
provides training on using the finished compost products to grow vegetables, trees,
and medicinal plants for consumption and sale - working to foster more resilient
and self-sufficient circular economy communities (Keesey and Souza 2018).
At schools, students, teachers, and administrators must learn how to use and
manage the compost toilets. With this, everyone learns the science of composting as
GiveLove works with all participants in on-site compost system establishment.
Projects are introduced step-by-step and initially focused on small pilot programs.
GiveLove notes widespread skepticism at the onset of the compost toilet introduction and application of the finished compost product, but full adoption is often
quickly achieved once users experience the benefits of this full cycle biosolid waste
management alternative (Keesey and Souza 2018).
The compost systems are a connecting tool for sustainable community development and a learning-by-doing model in addressing community health impacts and
environmental challenges. The programs are designed for illiterate or low-literacy
people and for community information exchange and education dissemination. The
organization encourages hands-on, peer-to-peer learning and ongoing problemsolving. With pathogen killing effective humanure compost program development,
the individual becomes an empowered agent of change, cultivating water purifying,
healthy soil food producing, climate change mitigating, self-reliant and resilient
communities” (Keesey and Souza 2018).
3.3.6 Case Study 6: The Need and Potential for Ghana
Ghana is a coastal nation in Central Africa, with a population of approximately 27
million, high poverty rates, and relatively low gross domestic product (GDP). With
a large portion of the population in the agricultural sector and limited agricultural
technologies and resources, the country is particularly vulnerable to climate change
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