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Effective technology transfer to Venezuela
The EcoSur Network not only sells equipments, it also promotes south-south information sharing with each product. After a 15 day technology transfer in the city of Merida, the venezuelan company TejaFácil began the production of the first roofs covered with MicroConcret Roofing tiles in Venezuela.
Erradication of child labor with small technological innovations
In the town of Chambo in the province of Chimborazo, Ecuador, over 300 families live and survive from the production of handmade of bricks. In many cases, the entire family works from 3 o´clock in the morning preparing the clay to be then worked and burned.
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The technology of the dry toilets extends in the Ecuadorian Andes
The South-South exchange, the spreading of information and research around specific technologies, has its high point in the word of mouth of the results of small applications that improve living standards in the most needy layers of society.
Vinicio Gallardo, technician of the Ecuadorian Foundation for the Habitat, FUNHABIT, visited the Santa Marianita neighborhood in Guano - Ecuador, where the Red EcoSur build dry toilets. FUNHABIT will implement dry toilets in the area of Pujili, Cotopaxi province, using the system of urine-separation and a space for the shower as built in Guano.
A year after the earthquake in Haiti
In central Haiti, in the city of Liancourt – Artibonite, the EcoSur team performs the first of its post-earthquake interventions. Achievements to date are a workshop that produces ferrocement panels for the construction of 60 basic units of housing, a school for builders and master builders, micro-concrete roof tile workshops as well as construction supervision of the Normal School of Liancourt.
Home Improvement in Brasil
Amelie Estrada, architect from Ecosur Nicaragua and Diego Coloma, technician from EcoSur Ecuador, visited the project "Home Improvement" (Caprichando a Morada in Portuguese), implemented by the Rural Housing Cooperative COOPERHAF in Chapecó city, state of Santa Catarina, winner of the World Habitat Award 2009, granted by the Building and Social Housing Foundation.
