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Rural Toilet Builder Course

This course aims at helping villages become open defecation free.
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Rural Toilet Builder Course

vilasini-admin May 9, 2020 CVET Courses

The course is aimed at empowering rural women to gain the necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes to single / twin pit using locally available tools and materials, given the design and measurements. Combined with the sanitation and hygiene awareness, this project aims at helping villages become open defecation free. The course covers the following competencies:

  • Identify and use tools & materials required to construct a toilet.
  • Demonstrate masonry and plumbing skills such as measurement, laying blocks, cement mortar preparation.
  • Joining PVC pipes using solvent cement or flame, marking and cutting PVC pipes, check level using spirit level or water level, cement mortar preparation, concrete preparation, plastering etc.
  • Maintain a toilet (repairs).
  • Insertion of IV Cannula.
  • Additional skills – block making, concrete lid construction.
Subject Matter Experts:

Br.Anil Varma, Construction head, Amrita University,Ettimadai
Stuart Macindoe, Construction specialist, San Ramon, USA

Available languages:
  • English
  • Hindi
  • Malayalam
  • Tamil
  • Kannada
  • Telugu
  • Odiya
  • Marathi
  • Gujarati
  • Bengali
Major Accomplishments:
  • Course developed in 9 languages and deployed in over 17 states
  • Over 100 rural women trained in toilet construction and over 120 toilets built
  • Low literacy interactive games designed and piloted
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      • Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
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      • Meet Our Team
      • Our Story
      • Director
      • Collaborations
      • Village Partnerships
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      • Awards
      • Media Recognition
    • Things We Make
      • Solutions
    • Notable Past Events
      • International Conference on Systems Thinking & Women’s Empowerment
      • W36 Global Summit
  • AMMACHI Labs
    • Lab Overview
      • CVET+LEE Approach
    • Motor Skills Training
      • Immersive Learning
      • Haptic Simulators
    • 21st Century Skills
      • 2nd Foundation Initiative
      • 2nd Foundation Workshops
      • Skills for Changing Environments
      • Makerspace
    • Learning Technologies
      • eCourse Development
      • Virtual Reality
      • Serious Games
    • Rural Tech
      • Rural Participatory Design
      • Rural Tech Prototypes
  • CWEGE
    • Center Overview
      • About CWEGE
      • UNESCO Chair
      • AWESOME
    • Lectures
      • CWEGE Invited Guest Lecture Series
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      • Impact Assessment of COVID-19 on Rural Communities
      • Computational Social Sciences
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