Low Water Hand-Washing Station

Every year tens of thousands of school kids in Africa die because of diseases they get at school.  Imagine a situation where a school has one hand pumped well. Water priorities are first for drinking and cooking the mid-day meal. And all the wash up that follows. Last on the list is hand-washing.  A lot of schools are so poor they can't afford toilet paper, so kids go directly from the latrine to the classroom without paper, soap or water.  The list of fatal transmitted diseases, from varieties of hepatitis, intestinal parasites, cholera, polio, are too depressing to dwell on.  

The Full Belly Project developed a simple Hand Washing Station for schools.  It's made from stuff even the poorest people in the world throw away.  An oil drum.  Half a truck tire, some soft drink bottles.  Buy a few its of steel and a pail full of cement.  It's all local, anywhere in the world. It uses 10% of the water that any other system does.