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Green (Rose) Toilet in Mukuru Slums, Nairobi
Nairobi, Kenya
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Dry toilet empowering lives in the community

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Category:
health & sanitation
Phase:
in use
Design:
Dick Olango, Dennis Munene
Updated:
11 October 2014
introduction

Toilet as a Vanity Space

va-nu-tee = feelings of excessive pride (always neglected toilet space can be associated with some pride )

Green Toilet in Mukuru, Changing a community from the toilet

From waste to resource: LIXIL CORPORATION, a leading housing building and appliances manufacturer in Japan commissioned green toilet project. 

Designed by Dick Olango of OSA Social Design Group

 

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In use by cjildren

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Urinal

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Entrence 2

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Garden

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Toilet

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