In May 2021-Rotary Club of London-World Community Services provides $1,750.00-CDN to provide communal toilets adjacent to a health clinic in a poor indigenous community in Mexico
In the Barrios along the North side of Lakeside Chapala there are no private facilities (toilets or running water) in homes and no communal toilets available supplied by the local Government. The barrio of Tepehua is one of the largest and poorest in Jalisco. At last count there were over 7,000 people living in huts, this is all Indian (indigenous) property and basically ignored by local Government. It is still Eljido land (Indian Tribal owned). Lack of communal toilets results in open defecation causing major health problems. Runoff in the rainy season eventually finds its way into the well water drinking systems. Portable toilets will not work as they could never be sustainable because of the labor and the price of chemicals. The answer is Communal Toilets in the congested areas of the barrios. Rotary Chapala would like to complete a pilot experiment of a Communal Toilet attached to the city sewer system. Rotary Chapala can then present a plan to the local Government and bring their involvement in to help.
