Video Collection

"Nomads in Ethiopia Receive Education on the Move"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_D8tnr43GE&feature=channel

A video about hygiene education taught from the backs of camels and in the shade of trees in Ethiopia:

"Thousands of charities and non-governmental agencies do development work in Africa, spending billions of dollars trying to make the continent a better place. There is a vigorous international debate over such assistance. While some projects claim success that provides new opportunities, critics contend that development money often does little good and can make matters worse. On a visit to Ethiopia's remote Afar region, correspondent Peter Heinlein found a development group that found success where others failed by 'following the clouds'."

Ecological Sanitation is an important new approach to sanitation, which is truly sustainable. It uses almost no water in its operation, and human waste products are used as fertilizer. So three major objectives are achieved:
-- saving on water, a critically scarce resource
-- non-pollution of the environment by human waste, a major cause of disease and loss of human life
-- 'closing the nutrient cycle' : the nutrients (primarily Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, and carbon matter) in our excreta goes back into the soil for re-use by plants. Instead of a one-way process where chemicals are mined and used for each crop produced, the same chemicals are returned to the soil for reuse.

This movie was created by UNICEF