The website of China Central Government issued the following statement by Mr. Xu Sunda, the Xinhua News Agency on 7 April 2019 in Hangzhou. “The Zhejiang Provincial Plant Protection and Quarantine Station issued official document titled “Complete Green Protection Technology…
THE VETIVER LATRINE from Roger Gietzen (see: http://www.healthy-mind-body.com/humanitarian/vetiver_latrine.html for details of vetiver latrine design and its construction) “It’s now been three years since I started installing vetiver latrines in Haiti. For all those who helped me with that project, I want to…
In 2016 while doing community development work in a rural farming region in Haiti, I became aware of the serious sanitation problem. Open defecation is the norm and diseases such as Cholera are active. The locals suggested building a single community latrine…
Currently there are a number of initiatives using various vetiver applications, especially for soil conservation, pollution control, and slope stabilization. Most are funded locally and by small UNDP and other regional grants. A lot can be done with a little…
