Installing a rain-water catchment system in Cambodia
Students in John Ochsendorf’s class, 4.472: D-Lab Schools, spent the fall 2010 planning to travel to rural Cambodia to work on school design projects. The class traveled over IAP, and a number of projects were undertaken, from installing new shutters to provide airflow during rainstorms, to building a latrine using rice husk ask (RHA) mixed [...]
Sanergy 101: Sanergy team to improve sanitation centers in Nairobi
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD July 5, 2011 Public Service Fellow Benji Moncivaiz ’11 is working in Nairobi with the Sanergy team, contributing to redesigning the sanitation center and co-directing the Nairobi fabrication and construction teams. Sanergy has now been firmly grasped by Nairobi and I am here to experience some of what it takes to [...]
Sanergy: converting waste to electricity and fertilizer, one toilet at a time
Sanergy, a team of MIT students led by Ani Vallabhaneni (Sloan, ’11) and David Auerbach (Sloan, ’11), traveled to Nairobi, Kenya during the summer of 2010, IAP 2011, and summer 2011, through the PSC Grants program. Ani and David developed a business model where waste from toilets is collected and converted into fertilizer and electricity, [...]
Cleaner water for the community
In the summer of 2006, Public Service Fellows Kendra Johnson ’09 and Froylan Sifuentes ’09 traveled to Ecuador to work with a small community of indigenous people in the Amazon region of Ecuador around sustainable clean water. Their work included engineering modifications to the water system, teaching the community how to run the administrative and [...]
Working for Pure Home Water
Public Service Fellow Thomas Hay (’10, Course 3) traveled to Northern Ghana to work with Pure Home Water, a non-profit organization that manufactures ceramic pot filters for home use. Thomas and Mary are pressing the ceramic filter using the Potters for Peace Press, which would later be replaced with a new press Thomas helped to [...]
Conducting a water test
Summer 2010 Public Service Fellows Saba Mohsin (’11 Course 2) and Lily Xu (’12 Course 12) traveled to Ecuador to continue a rainwater filtration tank project that MIT alum Kendra Johnson started in 2006. In this photo, they are conducting water tests to determine level of e.coli and coliform contamination in Santa Ana. The goal [...]
Before running the Chi Phi Back Bay 5K
Duane Dennis (’13, Undeclared), Sebastian Begg (’13, Undeclared), and Ishaan Kumar (’13, Undeclared) learning about Pure Home Water before the before the Chi Phi Back Bay 5K 2010 race with proceeds to fund local organizations. Photo: Saba Mohsin
