Why now?
It really matters to me that Americans live in the most, wealthy country in the world and have the most resources to give when it comes to helping others in need. Never before has it meant more to really consider whether it’s more important to spend five dollars on a coffee drink and pastry or to consider whether a few times or more per month we are willing to open up to a small sacrifice so that others have some of the basic necessities that we all may take for granted or forget that so many human beings in the world do not have access to. Giving back deeply means a lot to me and after reviewing a lot of different possibilities I have decided to focus all available efforts within and without through the good of our growing community on the Eco San Project to benefit schools and villages near Bodhgaya India. When the opportunity arises in the future to make a gift (birthday, anniversary, wedding, etc.) please consider a gift in this way in the recipients’ name to help one of the most amazing and spiritually rich centers in the entire world become empowered with some of the basic necessities for human beings, a safe a functioning sanitized toilet system. Please read below and make a donation today and/or consider attending one of the upcoming fundraising events.
Eco San Fundraising Events
Fundraising events provide the perfect opportunity to be of service in a multitude of ways; outreach, communication, logistics or financial. If in reading this, you feel a resonance to open your heart and time in this way please be in touch. Please stay tuned for fundraising events, parties, and gatherings to follow.
Eco San Project
This project not only produces great health benefits, it also greatly increases the self-esteem and self-confidence of women and girls by giving them access to clean and safe sanitation facilities. Consider this:
- 400 million people in India live below the poverty line. Few villages, semi urban or urban areas have access to sanitation facilities.
- Open fields and bushes are used as toilets. Open defecation is one of the major causes of disease in the world. Parasites and flies carry these diseases from waste to people.
- Girls in schools are not allowed to attend school when they are having their periods (due to lack of sanitation facilities). This can result in girls not completing their education. Also using fields at night is dangerous for women and girls (snakes, predators).
What does the project provide?
Wherever the Need will work closely with the local people in India to provide toilets that are clean and disease free, and produce valuable fertilizer and compost. They will also provide clean water through wells and rainwater harvesting. To ensure that drinking water is not polluted because of a lack of sanitation facilities, sanitation must come first.
- Eco-sanitation means composting toilets and clean water
- Toilets are no flush, use no water, and turn fecal matter into compost
- Compost can be used to grow food and sold for fertilizer
- Urine (which is separated) can water plants
- In the West we have a flush and forget attitude
- Clean water through wells and rainwater harvesting (collecting)
The positive impact of the eco-san projects is far reaching:
- Supports ecological ways of being – waste is turned into fertilizer and compost
- Improves health – reduces disease and provides clean toilets and water
- Gives training and education – especially empowering women
- Creates income through selling the fertilizer that is created
- Teaches conservation and stimulates agriculture
- Creates well-being on all levels