Training on Latrine Building

Lead Carpenter Instructs La Bregada

Unit Construction

Finishing Touches

Old and New

To resolve the number one community priority of the small village of Chorro Bonito located in the northeast province of Dajabón, near the Haitian border, the community constructed 20 ventilated latrines with the help of the Challenge Fund and PCV Meriel Darzen. Existing latrines of the community were either of walls made of palm, had dangerously dilapidated floors or were non-existent.

Working in brigades of 5 persons each four days a week for 10 weeks, the well-organized community constructed 16 latrines for Dominican families, 2 latrines for Haitian families permanently living in the community, a latrine for the school and, with left over materials, a latrine for the community’s church.

The community contribution of volunteer labor and some materials for the project resulted in the Challenge Fund representing only 27% of the costs for a cost of $97 per latrine.