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If toilets blocks are segregated by communities, strangers will stand out more easily. You may want to consider the prominent direction of wind for smells etc.
With all of the considerations, its difficult to put a guideline on the optimum distance between male and female toilets as it needs to be weighed up with all of the other constraints and maximised. It may make most sense to ask the local communities where they would prefer the location, if you have various options. If you do ask people make sure you ask both women and men!
For your second query regarding solar lighting, I helped install some solar lighting with fairly portable panels in hotels in Nepal. The purpose was to provide lighting during regular powercuts. With power cuts that only lasted an hour or so, it was ideal. If you needed lighting for longer periods (throughout the whole night) it may be more expensive. The panels themselves were imported from China (via USA ridiculously) and were relatively cheap. For a 5 watt solar panel, battery, 4 LED lights, Cable and switches it would cost approximately £60 (including profit). If you can find anyone locally who already has a business set up it is certainly worth investigating. Nepal had a huge amount of NGOs working there and so there were more than a few solar charities, of which some were international. Solar Aid have recently distributed Micro solar lighting ravi kits which may be the kind of thing you are looking for?
https://old.solar-aid.org/about/2010/03/ravis-ready-for-distribution-i.html?url=/about/2010/03/ravis-ready-for-distribution-i.html
Regards
Lucy Conrad
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With all of the considerations, its difficult to put a guideline on the optimum distance between male and female toilets as it needs to be weighed up with all of the other constraints and maximised. It may make most sense to ask the local communities where they would prefer the location, if you have various options. If you do ask people make sure you ask both women and men!
If toilets blocks are segregated by communities, strangers will stand out more
easily.
easily which is good for security.
You may want to consider the prominent direction of wind for smells etc.
With all of the considerations, its difficult to put a guideline on the optimum distance between male and female toilets as it needs to be weighed up with all of the other constraints and maximised. It may make most sense to ask the local communities where they would prefer the location, if you have various options. If you do ask people make sure you ask both women and men!
For your second query regarding solar lighting, I helped install some solar lighting with fairly portable panels in hotels in Nepal. The purpose was to provide lighting during regular powercuts. With power cuts that only lasted an hour or so, it was ideal. If you needed lighting for longer periods (throughout the whole night) it may be more expensive. The panels themselves were imported from China (via USA ridiculously) and were relatively cheap. For a 5 watt solar panel, battery, 4 LED lights, Cable and switches it would cost approximately £60 (including profit). If you can find anyone locally who already has a business set up it is certainly worth investigating. Nepal had a huge amount of NGOs working there and so there were more than a few solar charities, of which some were international. Solar Aid have recently distributed Micro solar lighting ravi kits which may be the kind of thing you are looking for?
https://old.solar-aid.org/about/2010/03/ravis-ready-for-distribution-i.html?url=/about/2010/03/ravis-ready-for-distribution-i.html
Regards
Lucy Conrad
