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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 26, 2013
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
• More photos
• Belize Open Source 40-‐acre site looking toward August Pine Ridge village
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 collaboraTon on an open source approach to
develop and parTcipate 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
Summary: HOME donaTons leveraged with matching
Year HOME Pledges
DonaTons EWB
Matched
August Pine Ridge school
Muffles College
Total Donated
2013 $1768 $1500* $1500* $500*
2012 $2060 $1500 $1500 $500 -‐
2011 $2800 $1500 $1500 $500 $500
2010 $500 $500 $500 $500
Total $7128 $5000 $5000 $2000 $500 $12500
*Projected: Matching Starts 12/2
AcTviTes: Belize Open Source -‐ Sustainable Development
• Donate HOME donaTons to EWB chapters working in Belize, matched with year-‐end funds from EWB-‐USA
• Donated • to Muffles school: $500 for emergency construcTon
of new sepTc tank • to 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 shubers • TBD project scope for this year
AcTviTes: Belize Open Source -‐ Sustainable Development (cont.)
• Raised funds and built first visitors’ accommodaTons at BOSSD for the CSU EWB team during their visits to construct the new classroom building in August Pine Ridge
• ConTnuing to seek a US Rotary club to partner with Belize Orange Walk Rotary and the CSU EWB August Pine Ridge project
• IniTated DIY aerial photo-‐mapping program: engaged schools and made iniTal set of maps
• Developing programs to use the Belize property
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 Our Vision is a world in which all communiTes have the capacity to meet their basic human needs
Supports community-‐driven development programs worldwide through the design and implementaTon of sustainable engineering projects, while fostering responsible leadership
EWB-‐USA Growth
2000 8 Members 1 Chapter 1 Project
2013 13,800 Members 250+ Chapters 389+ Programs 47 countries
• Established in 2004 • 150+ acTve volunteers • 6 infrastructure projects • 5 Appropriate Technology Design Team (A.T.D.T) projects
• ExecuTve Commibee and support commibees provide chapter management, fundraising, and publicity
EWB-‐SFP NaTon’s 1st Professional Chapter
EWB-‐SFP Projects and LocaTons Kenya Water Supply
El Salvador Water & SanitaJon, plasJc recycling
Fiji Water System
Ghana & West Africa
Cashew Waste UJlizaJon
Guatemala Wind Turbine
HaiJ Community Health Clinic and Solar Power
Honduras Bridge ConstrucJon & Water DistribuJon
Nicaragua ComposJng Toilet, water distribuJon – solar pump
Philippines Rock Crusher
Tanzania Water DistribuJon & Health Clinic
EWB Project Process and Commitment
• Projects have a non-‐governmental organizaTon (NGO) or community based organizaTon (CBO) partner acTng as a liaison to the community
• Three project phases: 1. Assessment 2. Design and ImplementaTon 3. Monitoring and EvaluaTon
• Long-‐term infrastructure projects have a minimum 5-‐year commitment to the community
• Appropriate technology projects vary in length depending on the requirements of the NGO and community
What’s the connecTon? • Coyle is founder and a Director of Belize Open Source -‐
Sustainable Development, a 501(c)(3) non-‐profit • Co-‐lead for EWB-‐SFP Appropriate Technology Design
Team and VP-‐Internal for EWB West Coast Region • Serves on EWB-‐USA West Coast Technical Advisory Team
and leads monthly team reviews of project applicaTons • Authored EWB applicaTon for the August Pine Ridge
Community Improvement Program – the new classroom building has now been completed by EWB-‐Cleveland State
• Public Lab organizer: presented at EWB Regional Workshops and EWB InternaTonal on “Simple, Inexpensive Aerial Photomapping with Balloons or Kites” and mapped sites with students in Belize
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 (new)
The focus of this talk is the EWB Cleveland State University August Pine Ridge classroom building project which is now complete. The team is looking at the next needs to address
Where is Belize?
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 transportaTon is good enough that a stop at Belize Open Source can be included as part of your iTnerary, along with whatever else you choose to do in Belize
• If you visit Belize and volunteer with BOSSD, a reasonable porTon of your trip expenses can be tax deducTble
How to get involved • Contact me:
• [email protected] • Belize Open Source: hbp://belizeopensource.org
• SFP-‐EWB: hbp://ewb-‐sfp.org/ • EWB-‐USA: hbp://www.ewb-‐usa.org/
• Individual chapters and projects are accessible through the EWB-‐USA website
• Public Lab: hbp://publiclab.org/
How to donate for matching I’ll be donaTng to the 3 chapters sTll working in Belize – websites are ready to take donaTons for matching December 2nd • hbps://ssl.charityweb.net/ewbusa/pfp/
fundraisingforbelize.htm
• hbps://ssl.charityweb.net/ewbusa/pfp/lamaruniversityinbelize.htm
• hbps://ssl.charityweb.net/ewbusa/pfp/ewboregonstatechapter.htm
Iowa State University
Engineering Without Borders Iowa State University Chapter
Solar Fruit Dehydrator Project Trinidad and Kings College, Orange
Walk, Belize
Building Stage
• In March of 2010 our program built three solar fruit dehydrators and leX them each in a different locaJon. – One was leX with Trinidad government school, our primary partner insJtuJon.
– Another was leX at Kings College high school. – The third constructed dryer, along with raw material for construcJng a 4th dryer, was demonstrated for and given to representaJves from the Orange Walk Rotary InternaJonal organizaJon.
• Each dryer recipient was provided with a manual for the construcJon and the use of the dehydrator.
Back in the States
• Earlier this semester our group built another fruit dryer at our college so we could pracJce and get an idea of maintenance issues we might face.
• We plan to rewrite the direcJons to improve user friendliness.
• On the next slide is some pictures of the construcJon of our dryer.
Future Plans • Monitoring trip over Thanksgiving • Observe dryer use and collect data on drying Jmes and
system metrics such as air flow and internal temperature • Equipment will be leX in-‐community to allow a user to
conJnue tesJng and observe variaJons with weather pa_erns
• Inspect community computer lab in nearby community (Coyle note: this is in the new classroom building in August Pine Ridge, next village down the road) for potenJal implementaJon in Trinidad
• Our year-‐end goal is $5000—will allow freedom of future travel to expand or wind down program based on needs
Thank you for your support for our project. Dan Voss
Samantha Sauerbrei Kelsey Regan Mark Sanocki Laura Jarboe
EWB-‐ISU Trinidad Travel Team
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…building partnerships…
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…making friends…
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Our partner community and insJtuJon
Trinidad
Kings College
AcJviJes
Projects: • Build and test three solar driers for three primary
schools • Create construction, operation, and maintenance
plans for drier • Construct town sign and school sign in Trinidad • Assess feeding program and school garden for
Kings College • Initiate contact and assess needs at Kings College • Assess two stove designs, determine cooking
needs • Hygiene education – clean hands
Cultural Experience
School Garden and NutriJon
Future DirecJon: Chemistry Program
Needs: -‐ Experiments that don’t require special chemicals -‐ More space -‐ Be_er equipment
Solar Fruit Dryer
Trinidad: Town Sign
MeeJng Rotary in Orange Walk Belize
Next Steps
Continued and proposed projects: • Coordinate with Humana-‐Belize (NGO) for seeds and local resources for tools to equip Kings College for school garden
• Create a textbook drive for Kings College • Assess and iniJate stove program business (30-‐50 stoves / week) • Design and construct bus stop for Trinidad Village • Coordinate with Rotary in Orange Walk to expand Solar Dryer project • TBD – depending on assessment coming up
Iowa State University reported they were unable to idenTfy a suitable scope of work for their next project with the community and have closed out their program in Belize
Lamar University, village of Chunox in the Corozol District
• Implement a restroom facility for the St. Viatore vocaTonal high school • Performed test to determine water quality, soil type, soil
percolaTon, water table, land survey (for a percolaTon field), located a site for the bathrooms
• Formed Memorandum of Understanding with the school – • we will provide materials and design • the school will provide labor, some lodging and meals
• Currently working on alternaTves Analysis: our preferred alternaTve is a standard flush toilet. The effluent waste will be treated by a percolaTon field
• Established in 2008 • Consists of over 20 current members • Started our first project in 2009 • Traveled to Belize for the first time in 2010
About Lamar University Chapter
§ We have raised about $25,000.
§ We are fundraising and preparing grant applications for the balance of the estimated $50k total.
§ Final design is complete and approved by EWB-USA - just need the funding.
LocaJon Official Address: St. Viator High School 1.5 mi. beyond Chunox Village Chunox – Sarteneja Road P.O. Box 330 Corozal Town
Ferry
St. Viator VocaJonal High School
Cafeteria
Water Supply • Water line from Chunox
• Chunox uses reverse osmosis on community water
• There is no water filtration on site
• Supplies Cafeteria • School Well, pond
• Supplies shower, animals, and crops
Pit Latrine Bathrooms
Texas A&M University; San Mateo • San Mateo is an impoverished community, listed by the Belize
Red Cross as the most impoverished/at risk community in the country
• The land in actuality is a Tdal estuary densely populated with mangroves, which is more ouen than not under several feet of water
• Approximately 150-‐180 “homes” exist in San Mateo on sTlts with no running water, electricity or sanitaTon. Each “home” is reached by walking a series of elevated “London bridges,” a precarious system of scrap lumber walkways generally no wider than 22” with no handrails
• The community is in desperate need of affordable, potable running water, development of a sanitaTon system, pathway improvement, roadways, and a land fill, among other needs. EWB-‐USA, TAMU intends to undertake some of these projects
Randy Nelson, project lead, wrote, We'd be happy to work with you and share information and experiences in Belize as our project develops. To give you an update on our project, we are currently preparing for an assessment trip to San Mateo in January. We expect that we will be working with the community to develop a source of fresh water, but we're keeping a somewhat open mind since this will be our first trip. Our tentative schedule is to try to complete our first project by next Christmas, but that is very much dependent on this first assessment trip. We'll be better able to give you a timeline once we get back. As for fundraising, we are trying to raise $20,000 for the implementation next year. I'm attaching a few photos of the community, and I can send more if you'd like.
Belize Water Sanitation Project San Mateo, Belize
Christopher Kirkland and Briana Herrmann
The Team!
The Community
Water Update
• Many changes to the community have been made over the summer leaving a need for a water filtration system no longer necessary
• The local Rotary Club of Belize has provided the community with 200 Sawyer water filters, which is sufficient enough to provide each home with clean drinking water
• Training for these filters is currently in progress. During our assessment trip this January 2013 we hope to be able to participate in helping distribute the filters to members of the community
A New Need
• Contamination of the community's water lines through leaked sewage has caused unsanitary living conditions. Additionally, waste from vault toilets has run out into the stagnant water surrounding the community (see photo). The previous assessment trip confirmed coliform contamination in the water lines as a result of this practice.
• A septic tank for the community of San Mateo will provide the residents with an improved means to dispose of their waste which will overall provide clean water to their homes and standing water throughout the community. This will reduce the amounts of fatalities and diseases that are currently found within the community.
Household Septic System
• We are currently arranging plans for our assessment trip this January 2013 to scope the site for a potential household septic system
• A local sanitation engineer has provided us with a septic tank design that was intended for mainland conditions. However, due to San Mateo's environmental challenges, this design will not suffice under the areas mangrove swamp. Therefore, we anticipate a mound septic system
Texas A&M has closed out their program in Belize, primarily due to lack of community capacity to successfully partner with EWB
San Mateo
New this year Jordan Machtelinckx, Belize Program Coordinator, wrote: • We are currently solidifying our partnership with the community of
the Valley of Peace outside Belmopan, and our third partner organizaJon, the Ministry of Agriculture (located in Central Farm).
• We are currently working together on the documentaJon to get the
project approved by EWB USA so that we can begin our assessment work for future implementaJons.
• The project will pertain to agricultural water supply.
• Specifically, the community would like to construct a system to capture water from the nearby Belize River and divert it to a storage tank. From there they envision a gravity distribuJon system to get the water to the nearby farm plots, slightly downhill. This would provide sufficient water for year-‐round irrigaJon and thus greater crop yield and resale potenJal in the nearby markets of Belmopan and San Ignacio.
• The greatest design consideraJon is how to get water up gradient
from the river to the tank: gas-‐powered pumps are very expensive to operate. Hydro-‐ram technologies have been menJoned, but the feasibility of this opJon depends greatly on the environments and available energy gradients in the flowing water -‐ we'll need to address these factors in our iniJal assessments.
August Pine Ridge, Belize School Building Update
Cleveland State EWB project • The new school building provides addiTonal 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 characterisTcs were incorporated into the school building’s foundaTon design
• Soil characterisTcs for a leach field for the school building’s sepTc system were evaluated
Cleveland State EWB (cont.) • The skill level of local labor for construcTon was assessed • A Belizean Civil Engineering firm agreed to help the
chapter with construcTon in Belize, paperwork required by the Central Building Authority (CBA) to secure construcTon approval and building codes used in-‐country
A Final Design Report (FDR) with all necessary design calculaTons and construcTon documents was submibed to EWB-‐USA for review and implementaTon was approved
Floor plan – classroom building
Cleveland State EWB funding • The preliminary esTmate for construcTon, furnishing and
ouwixng the school was ~$150k USD • The community agreed to raise $100k in cash and/or
in-‐kind contribuTons (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 internaTonal 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)
• ConstrucTon began in April, 2011 and was completed in 2012
CSU Project Manager/ Site Engineer and APR School Project Committee Chairman Julio Magaña at the completion of the project.
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.
Not everybody could be listed. We wish to also thank BASF, Parker Hannifin Company, and Belize Open Source, to name a few more.
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.
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.
CSU Students Amy Kalabon (left) and Alice Summerville (Right) level stone for the leach field on the school property.
Completion of pipe runs to septic tanks behind the school. At this time the tanks are sealed and the pipes all covered.
Distribution box walls poured, top was added the next day and everything is now covered with fill material.
The leach field with all the pipes set awaiting the final cover of 18 inches of soil.
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CSU next steps Norb Delatte, faculty advisor indicated the team expects to travel in mid-March ‘14: • Water treatment remains a priority, but has been delayed as the team addresses humidity problems in the new classroom building. Improved ventilation and other options are being considered.
• The team continues work with the water board and the community project committee to develop water treatment options, including a pilot point-of-use system. Received a $10k grant toward the system vs a preliminary estimate of $50k.
CSU next steps • The team was awarded the 2013 NCEES Engineering Award for Connecting Professional Practice and Education, $25,000 grand prize for its submission, Design, Funding, and Construction of the August Pine Ridge School/Hurricane Shelter in Belize – the funds will be used to repay repay part of the university loans for construction costs.
• The August Pine Ridge Water Board has done a pilot program with water meters to prepare for metering and use-based fees to encourage water conservation and reduce operating costs.
• Students continue working with Dr. Majid Rashidi and his wind amplification turbine system to examine the feasibility of wind energy. Solar is also being considered.
Status: grassroots aerial photomapping program in Belize
• During 9-‐day trip in February ’13, engaged schools to develop capabiliTes and make iniTal 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 capabiliTes, • archive, access and communicate with the images, • implement training through classes in local schools, • conTnue 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 parTcipated. Jeff Warren and Stewart Long, Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science, have parTcipated in planning
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.”
August Pine Ridge RC school mapping session
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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…”
Muffles Junior College, Belize mapping sessions
Muffles Junior College, Belize mapping sessions
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
Site: Belize Open Source Sustainable Development
• This 40-‐acre rural property is located in northwestern Belize near the Mexican and Guatemala borders about 16 miles from Orange Walk Town, between the villages of August Pine Ridge and San Felipe and 3.5 miles to the Rio Hondo Belize/Mexico border
belizeopensource.org
• Google Maps shows it, but unTl recently, two more clicks in and you ran out of pixels – it’s beber now
Belize Open Source mapping session
Belize Open Source mapping session
Images were from Canon A1200 in juice boble rig shooTng in conTnuous mode (Qstarz gps tracker flown as well)
Belize Open Source mapping session
Images from Delta LevitaTon
Belize Open Source mapping session
Natalio Soliz flying the kite
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CSU prior photos
