GiveLove

Improving Lives Through Safe Sanitation

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GiveLove is a U.S. based skills training NGO dedicated to the teaching and promotion of Ecological Sanitation (EcoSan) and compost sanitation. Since 2010, the organization has worked in emergency and development contexts to introduce low-cost, decentralized sanitation systems based on container-based sanitation and humanure composting approaches. Specializing in dry toilets – also known as compost toilets – GiveLove’s technical teams work in high-need and water-scarce areas to provide safe alternatives to pit latrines in challenging environments.
We work hands-on with schools, communities, and Non-Governmental Organizations to provide affordable toilets and on-site treatment solutions for high-need and water-scarce areas.
The organization works in partnership with NGOs, community-based organizations, schools, youth groups, universities, and government to build capacity in emerging sanitation sectors through: technical skills training, program design and support, staff training, monitoring and evaluation, and design consultancy. GiveLove seeks to strengthen local initiatives to improve sanitation in high-risk communities by designing appropriate sanitation solutions, and training master trainers and community-level sanitation technicians to implement and manage projects.

Projects:
• Standing Rock: Robby Romero, native activist and founder of Native Children’s Survival, invited GiveLove to Standing Rock to replace the chemical toilets at Oceti Sakowin camp to prevent pollution of the sacred Sioux lands and Missouri River. Working in collaboration with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (SRST) EPA and Chairman Dave Archambault II, indigenous leadership and youth, and hundreds of volunteers, GiveLove and Protectors Alliance launched our most ambitious and technically challenging compost toilet project during North Dakota’s harsh winter under extreme blizzard conditions.
• Colombia: GiveLove began working with WaterAID in Colombia in February 2017 and spent three weeks working with indigenous Wayuu communities learning about previous efforts to introduce container-based sanitation systems in the La Guarjira region. A Fossa Alterna toilet was installed at primary school CEIR # 9 – Wayuuma’ana to pilot this dry toilet technology in this ecological and cultural context.
• Uganda: In October 2016, GiveLove began working in partnership with WeltHungerHilfe to introduce compost sanitation to schools, communities and prisons in the Karamoja region. using a peer-to-peer training approach with the schools' WASH clubs.
• Kenya: GiveLove began working in Kenya in October 2016 with a series of EcoSan Trainings for NGOs, schools, and private businesses that wanted to learn about composting. We’re happy to help teach local partners how to manage their own sanitation needs and to help protect precious water resources like Lake Naivasha.
• Nicaragua: GiveLove began working in Nicaragua in October 2014 with a tour of Managua, Tipitapa, and the Atlantic coast region where we learned first-hand about sanitation and water issues. In May 2015, our first Go-team travelled to Nicaragua to launch a six-week EcoSan Skills Training program, and two pilot projects with our partners, Sweet Progress and BlueEnergy. In Tipitapa, we worked with women cooperatives from Sweet Progress to set up compost toilets at a primary school and several homes as part of our new rural household pilot.
• Haiti: GiveLove organized the first large-scale humanure composting pilot after the devastating 2010 earthquake in response to the urgent need for sanitation in the tent camps. In addition to coordinating relief supplies and assisting with camp management, our team provided clean compost toilets and on-site sanitation for thousands of earthquake victims. GiveLove is currently working on a small pilot project to bring household and public compost toilets to Tiburon communities that were effected by Hurricane Matthew.

Alisa Puga Keesey is the Program Director of GiveLove.

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