Safety of the use of EcoSan latrine products by
communities:Case of Burera District
Ntakarutimana Amans
Lecturer/Environmental Heath
RBC/Kigali Health Institute-Rwanda
Challenges
• Perception – Risks-non use of feces and urine (drop-and-store
mind)– Benefits- early application
• Ignorance – Characteristics and value of feces and urine
• Resources– Population– Stakeholders – Mobilisation
Use of EcoSan latrine products in Burera District.
• Short film ( 7 minutes) on the:– Use of feces and urine– Benefits – Appreciation
• Health safety findings (3minutes)– Quality of feces, urine, soil, water bodies and plant materials– Collection, treatment and application measures
• Conclusion (2 minutes)– Benefits – Needs of support– Decentralisation – Resources-funding strategy– Rules and regulations– Stakeholders
Health safety findings
• Self protection (28.8%)• Hand washing (43.8%)• Biological quality of
– feces ready for use (23%)– Urine (0%)
• Contamination of – soil (4.7%)– water (0%)– plant materials (0.9%)
The total number of households
= 73
The sample size = 25
The sample size = 105
Reduction of pathogens with time of local composting
05
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Freshfeces
FecesafterT1
FecesafterT2
FecesafterT3
FecesafterT4
FecesafterT5
Time
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Ascaris lumbricoides
Trichuris trichiura
Strongyloides stercoralis
E.Coli
E.Histolistica
Quality of feces and treatment
Conclusion
• Environmental pollution• Soil • water Less pollution • plants
• Health benefits• Products less harmful (pH, To, t)• Less contamination (controlled)• STH, nutrition
• Agriculture productivity• Claver (from 700,000 to 2,000,000Rwf).
• Jacky (3 times of her harvest).
• Cost savings to farmers (use of urine,
top up with sanitized feces ).
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