2015 Belize Open Source - Sustainable Development and Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA) in northern Belize
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Belize Open Source - Sustainable Development and Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA) in northern Belize Patrick Coyle EWB-SFP, Belize Open Source - Sustainable Development, Public Laboratory for LLNL- November, 2015
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2015 Belize Open Source - Sustainable Development and Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA) in northern Belize
- 2. Agenda • Overview: Belize Open Source - Sustainable Development • Overview: • Engineers Without Borders- USA (EWB-USA) • Engineers Without Borders — San Francisco Professional Chapter (EWB-SFP) • Status update: Five EWB chapter projects in northern Belize • Belize kite aerial photo-mapping results • EWB Nicaragua composJng toilets • More photos • Belize Open Source 40-acre site looking toward August Pine Ridge village
- 3. What is Belize Open Source - Sustainable Development? • Belize Open Source - Sustainable Development, as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, • promotes environmentally and socially sustainable development • invites collaboraJon on an open source approach to develop and parJcipate in a land-based learning and community outreach center on a working farm on 40 acres in northwestern Belize • partners with EWB-USA to collaborate with EWB chapters on projects
- 4. Summary: HOME donaJons leveraged with matching Year HOME Pledges DonaJons EWB Matched August Pine Ridge school Muffles College Total Donated 2015 $2434 - - $500* 2014 $2520 $1500 - $500 2013 $1768 $1500 $1500 $500 2012 $2060 $1500 $1500 $500 - 2011 $2800 $1500 $1500 $500 $500 2010 $500 $500 $500 $500 Total $12082 $6500 $5000 $3000 $500 $15000 *Projected: No 2014-15 chapter match
- 5. AcJviJes: Belize Open Source - Sustainable Development • Donate HOME donaJons to EWB chapters working in Belize, prior years matched with year-end funds from EWB-USA – now chapters wrapping up, closing programs • Muffles school: $500 for emergency construcJon of new sepJc tank • August Pine Ridge school: • $500 for public address system • $500 for teachers’ texts and filing cabinet for new classrooms • $500 to replace termite damaged wooden classroom windows with metal hurricane shucers • $500 for bike racks • $500 for mulJpurpose room • $500 for next priority
- 6. AcJviJes: Belize Open Source - Sustainable Development (cont.) • Raised funds and built first visitors’ accommodaJons at BOSSD for the CSU EWB team during their visits to construct the new classroom building in August Pine Ridge • IniJated DIY aerial photo-mapping program: engaged schools and made iniJal set of maps • Developing programs to use the Belize property
- 7. Agenda • Updates and status: Belize Open Source - Sustainable Development • Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA) • Engineers Without Borders — San Francisco Professional Chapter (EWB-SFP) • Updates and status: Three EWB chapter projects in northern Belize • Belize photos • Road past Belize Open Source 40-acre site toward August Pine Ridge village EWB-USA vision and mission Vision is a world in which all communiJes have the capacity to meet their basic human needs Supports community-driven development programs worldwide through the design and implementaJon of sustainable engineering projects, while fostering responsible leadership
- 9. • Established in 2004 • ~ 200 acJve members • 7 infrastructure programs • 2 Appropriate Technology Design Team (ATDT) projects • ExecuJve Commicee and support commicees provide chapter management, fundraising, and publicity EWB-SFP NaJon’s 1st Professional Chapter
- 10. EWB-SFP Programs and LocaJons Kenya Water Supply El Salvador Water & SanitaIon Fiji Water System Kenya Water System Honduras Bridge ConstrucIon & Water DistribuIon Nicaragua ATDT ComposIng Toilets Water distribuIon – solar pump Tanzania Well rebuilding, water DistribuIon & solar pumping
- 11. EWB Project Process and Commitment • Projects have a non-governmental organizaJon (NGO) or community based organizaJon (CBO) partner acJng as a liaison to the community • Three project phases: 1. Assessment 2. Design and ImplementaJon 3. Monitoring and EvaluaJon • Long-term infrastructure projects have a minimum 5-year commitment to the community • Service Corps and Appropriate Technology projects vary in length depending on the requirements of the NGO and community
- 12. What’s the connecJon? • Coyle is founder and a Director of Belize Open Source - Sustainable Development, a 501(c)(3) non-profit • Lead for EWB-SFP Appropriate Technology Design Team and Co-president for EWB West Coast Region • Serves on EWB-USA West Coast Technical Advisory Team and leads monthly team reviews of project applicaJons • Authored EWB applicaJon for the August Pine Ridge Community Improvement Program – the new classroom building has been completed by EWB-Cleveland State, now closing out program • Public Lab organizer: presented at EWB Regional Workshops and EWB InternaJonal on “Simple, Inexpensive Aerial Photomapping with Balloons or Kites” and mapped sites with students in Belize
- 13. Belize Open Source - Sustainable Development and EWB chapters • We’ve supported five EWB chapters working in northern Belize • Cleveland State University, August Pine Ridge • Iowa State University, Trinidad • Lamar University, Chunox in the Corozol District • Texas A&M, San Mateo on Ambergris Caye • Oregon State University, Valley of Peace
- 14. Two EWB chapters programs are closing out • This year the last two EWB chapters with programs in northern Belize are closing them out • Cleveland State University, August Pine Ridge classroom building project is complete. Their work on water quality improvements and renewable energy was not adequately supported by the community • Lamar University, Chunox in the Corozol District sanitaJon system leach field work was overtaken by events and no longer needed
- 15. Other EWB chapter projects are closed • These three EWB chapters completed, cancelled, or were unable to launch their projects • Iowa State University, Trinidad: completed, closed • Texas A&M, San Mateo on Ambergris Caye: cancelled • Oregon State University, Valley of Peace: unable to launch
- 16. Where is Belize?
- 17. Belize up close • Belize is small: About 175 miles, north-south, by 80 miles wide • It has diverse land regions: cayes, barrier reef, beaches, tropical rain forests, caves with rivers running into them, mountain pine ridge, and savannahs (where we are) • Belize is small enough and transportaJon is good enough that a stop at Belize Open Source can be included as part of your iJnerary, along with whatever else you choose to do in Belize • If you visit Belize and volunteer with BOSSD, a reasonable porJon of your trip expenses can be tax deducJble
- 18. How to get involved • Contact me: • pat@coyles.com • Belize Open Source: hcp://belizeopensource.org • SFP-EWB: hcp://ewb-sfp.org/ • EWB-USA: hcp://www.ewb-usa.org/ • Individual chapters and projects are accessible through the EWB-USA website • Public Lab: hcp://publiclab.org/
- 19. August Pine Ridge, Belize School Building Update
- 20. Cleveland State EWB project • The new school building provides addiJonal space for the current overcrowded school that serves approximately 450 students and serves as a hurricane shelter for the general community • A project-specific assessment trip was completed in May 2010 and the floor plan for the school was finalized and approved by the community • Data on building material quality and availability was gathered along with material prices • Detailed site soil samples were collected and shipped to CSU’s campus for laboratory tests. Soil characterisJcs were incorporated into the school building’s foundaJon design • Soil characterisJcs for a leach field for the school building’s sepJc system were evaluated
- 23. Cleveland State EWB funding • The preliminary esJmate for construcJon, furnishing and outiung the school was ~$150k USD • The community agreed to raise $100k in cash and/or in-kind contribuJons (including labor) • The CSU Chapter agreed to raise up to $50k (Coyle/ BOSSD helped in modest amounts) • The community applied for funds to the Belize Natural Energy Trust (a fund organized by an oil company) for $50k and to the Social Improvement Fund (an internaJonal development fund in the Caribbean) • (as of early August ‘12, the cost to date was ~$134k, with $61k from Belize and $73k from CSU EWB) • ConstrucJon began in April, 2011 and was completed in 2012
- 24. CSU Project Manager/ Site Engineer and APR School Project Committee Chairman Julio Magaña at the completion of the project.
- 25. Classroom tiled and ready for use. The door is only open when the building is utilized as a hurricane shelter by the community. Similar doors allow passage throughout the building in safety.
- 26. Not everybody could be listed. We wish to also thank BASF, Parker Hannifin Company, and Belize Open Source, to name a few more.
- 27. While in Belize the leaking roof on the existing school was repaired. No more leaks. The black of the roof is the build up of ash from the burning of sugar cane. Because of the slope on the new school, each passing rain helps to keep the roof clean.
- 28. Anemometer installed on the roof of the other school building. Data collected by the students of APR is emailed to CSU engineering students working closely with Dr. Majid Rashidi and his wind amplification turbine system to properly size the wind turbines.
- 29. CSU Students Amy Kalabon (left) and Alice Summerville (Right) level stone for the leach field on the school property.
- 30. Completion of pipe runs to septic tanks behind the school. At this time the tanks are sealed and the pipes all covered.
- 31. Distribution box walls poured, top was added the next day and everything is now covered with fill material.
- 32. The leach field with all the pipes set awaiting the final cover of 18 inches of soil.
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- 40. CSU status Nov 23, 2015, Norbert Delatte, the faculty advisor wrote EWB-USA staff: • We are not planning a 501B submittal for the Belize project because we have evaluated our proposed water project for the village and we don’t think it makes sense. There isn’t a need for it and the village wasn’t enthusiastic about it. • We are working on the 527 to close it out. I have a draft I have been working on. Our final M&E trip was on January 6 – 9, 2013.
- 41. Water Quality Testing Photo (left to right) Anna Florian, Stephen Kolbus, and Michael Sutadji taken by Norbert Delatte
- 42. Installation of Solar Panel Photo of Michael Sutadji taken by Anna Florian
- 43. Discussion Panel with Community over Water Treatment Design Presentation Photo of Community members taken by Michael Sutadji
- 51. Lamar University status September 2015, Document 527, Program Closeout Report indicates: • Our project consisted of designing a septic tank for the implementation of a modern restroom facility at St. Viator High School. Since the community has found other means of obtaining this restroom facility, our designs have now become obsolete. We are happy to hear of the progress at St. Viator High School, but have decided to start a new program in another part of the world. • We are thankful for the kindness you have shown, as well as patience you and your students have had with us. We apologize for not completing the project sooner and for the uncertainty you all must have experienced when we failed to correspond appropriately throughout these years.
- 52. Status: grassroots aerial photomapping program in Belize • During 9-day trip in February ’13, engaged schools to develop capabiliJes and make iniJal set of maps (Belize Open Source property, August Pine Ridge school classrooms and surrounding community, and Muffles College) • Posted Research Notes on Public Lab, in context of a plan to: • develop capabiliJes, archive, access and communicate with the images, implement training through classes in local schools, conJnue with ongoing workshops for future visitors to extend techniques and map more of the country's sites of interest with emphasis on community needs and benefits to local users, as well as some the gorgeous sites • August Pine Ridge school and Muffles College Environmental Sciences program parJcipated. Mapping has conJnued
- 53. Blanca Torres, principal of the August Pine Ridge school, wrote, “The aerial photo mapping seems very interesting. I shared with my children and sisters the images of our village … and they just loved them. … I welcome these opportunities where I can involve my students in new learning experiences. I am very interested in exposing them through your mapping project. We feel pride in having our community appear in internet pages and more if we are involved in getting those images.”
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- 57. In progress and completed new classroom building Richard Obratil, former Chapter President, Project Manager/Site Engineer EWB-Cleveland State University Chapter, wrote, “... here is a picture of the building…”
- 60. Muffles Junior College, Belize mapping sessions • Did two hands-on training and mapping sessions with Rafael Castillo, the faculty advisor, and the Environmental Club at the Muffles Junior College campus near Orange Walk Town • Left them with a complete KAP mapping kit • Put a sustainable mapping capability in place at Muffles which can serve the Environmental Science program
- 71. SFP-ATDT ComposJng Latrines in Nicaragua • In 2010, EWB-SFP ATDT, Alvarez Co-op, Alcance Nicaragua (AN) and Outreach InternaJonal (OI), built ten composJng toilets with the community of Los Alvarez, Nicaragua (134 families, ~ 938 people) • 95% of its latrines were in poor condiJon. These latrines flood with water during the winter and fail structurally, resulJng in illnesses due to exposure to fecal macer and water contaminaJon • The environment is polluted and inhabitants are exposed to physical harm due to latrine collapse Completed composJng toilet from 2010 pilot implementaJon trip
- 72. ComposJng Latrine Status • The first composJng toilets were working great • User acceptance was high • GeneraJon and use of compost for agricultural applicaJons was successful • The community wanted more units
- 74. Phase 2 (cont.) • ATDT and OI signed MOU to build addiJonal 10 reduced-cost toilets over 12 days in August 2014 • EWB-HQ transferred ATDT funds to OI/ AN for the local group to purchase materials • AN and the local group idenJfied new beneficiaries, procured materials and transportaJon, managed the construcJon, and collected beneficiaries’ contribuJon (40% of cost) • Constructed 14 of the new redesigned composJng toilets Prototype reduced cost redesigned toilet
- 75. Phase 2 (cont.) • July 2014: AN selected parJcipants in community of El Lllanito • August 2014: Material Procurement prior to construcJon started • August 19-August 31, 2014: ConstrucJon • Post ConstrucJon: DocumentaJon – in progress
- 77. Phase 2 Planning (cont.) • July 2014: AN selects parJcipants • August 2014: Material Procurement prior to construcJon start • August 19-August 31: ConstrucJon • Post ConstrucJon: • DocumentaJon
- 86. Post ConstrucIon: Structural evaluaIon/upgrades • Our team completed structural evaluaJon and developed inexpensive upgrades to improve the integrity of the structure • Add concrete masonry units (CMUs) with rebar and grout at the corners of the base vault structure to add moment resistance • Limit the force into the base vault structure from the upper superstructure, via graceful failure so detaches from the base vault structure in high wind loads (~80mph)
- 88. Next steps • The EWB team has raised funds to do more composJng toilets for the families that need them • Almost $3k through an IndieGoGo campaign • $7.5k grant from EWB-SFP chapter • My Rotary Club of Livermore and our NGO partnered with the Masaya Nicaragua Rotary club for a Global Grant (GG) for $37.5k, enough to do about 80 more units • Rotary Club of Castro Valley allocated funds (DDF) to get us to $15k min • EWB-SFP ATDT is donaJng $5k • The Rotary FoundaJon approved the applicaJon – we are dealing with last paperwork to transfer funds to start next phase
- 89. Future plans • EWB-USA's announcement of their Nicaragua office and first hire, Edrulfo Rodriguez, offers a parJcularly interesJng opportunity • Our SFP chapter has: • an exisJng infrastructure project for water supply in El Limon, • the Appropriate Technology Design Team (ATDT) composJng toilets, • a new water supply system project in Nicaragua – which means we will be engaged for a minimum of five more years • I’m preparing another Rotary VTT GG applicaJon for 1) the water supply system and 2) a broader community water, sanitaJon, and overall needs assessment to develop candidate projects for future EWB and Rotary projects with the Nicaragua Rotary WASH team, all the Rotary clubs in Nicaragua, other NGOs, and partners Nicaragua is easy to visit: A red-eye from SFO gets you to Managua by mid-morning. Stopping in Belize makes sense
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- 142. CSU prior photos