ENGAGING CHILDREN IN HAITI: UTILIZING FOUND MATERIALS AND PROVEN TECHNIQUES TO GROW FOOD AND FILTER WATER

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dc.contributor.advisorEllis, Christopheren_US
dc.contributor.authorTrobman, Harris Brianen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPlant Science and Landscape Architecture (PSLA)en_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-17T05:38:26Z
dc.date.available2015-07-17T05:38:26Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractThe focus of this thesis is the design and implementation of a community health project at a new school campus for 600 students in St. Louis Du Norde, Haiti. The design harvests and filters rainwater to drinking water standards, grows nutritional vegetable crops on secure rooftops, creates social space, and recycles old tires, plastic bottles and rice sacks that otherwise pose a massive solid waste problem in Haiti. The processes are also taught to the students so they can take and use the planters at home. The materials for building the growing containers and the growing media are all free and made from local wastes (tires, plastic bottles, rice sacks, manure, soil etc.). They are easy to build and free to construct making them accessible to even to the poorest and neediest families in Haiti. The idea is to develop easily replicable and desirable solutions to the basic health needs.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2KP8V
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/16819
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEnvironmental healthen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAgriculture educationen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEducational technologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledClean Wateren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHaiti Schoolen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRe-purposingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRooftop Agricultureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSlow Sand Filteren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSolid Wasteen_US
dc.titleENGAGING CHILDREN IN HAITI: UTILIZING FOUND MATERIALS AND PROVEN TECHNIQUES TO GROW FOOD AND FILTER WATERen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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