Schools in Philippines

School Sanitation Project in San Fernando, the Philippines 2005 - 2006

Together with WASTE, CAPS in the Philippines and the city of San Fernando it was decided to support three schools in the communities where the ISSUE programme has pilot projects for ecological sanitation toilets.

The three elementary schools, in Naguybuyuban and San Augustin, have very poor toilet facilities. In upper Nagyubuyuban, the school has approximately 130 pupils and in lower Nagyubuyuban, there are only 90 pupils. The school in San Augustin is much bigger and provides education to more than a thousand children.

For the Nagyubuyuban schools, there are plans to build permanent concrete toilet facilities according to new building standards of the Ministry of Education. Each school will get 2 new toilets, one for the higher grades and the other for lower grades. The existing toilet will be adapted and made suitable for the teachers. Each toilet will consist of two units, one for girls and one for boys. The toilets will be urine diverting and in addition a bidet, walls and roof and an outside lavatory (hand washing) will be built.

In San Agustin, it is planned to build two facilities, one for boys and one for girls. Each facility will have 4 toilet cubicles with urine diversion toilets and lavatories with mirrors. In addition the boys will get 3 to 4 urinals. Each toilet unit will have a septic tank for grey water and a holding tank for urine. These are bigger facilities as San Agustin has more students. The grey water as well as the urine will, be used for growing plants in the neighbourhood and agricultural crops in the surrounding fields.

The toilets for the teachers will be adapted similar to those of the pupils.