THE THOUSAND BAHT TOILET CHANGES EVERYTHING AT AMPHUR PHRAO
The sixth full installation of Project Protein is at Amphur Phrao. It's an hour by car and another rugged hour and a half by four wheel drive. Like the five previous villages, Amphur Phrao will have a fish pond, a poultry operation, a communal vegetable garden, and a fully operational "mushroom hotel." Villagers will learn to make organic fertilizers and pesticides, and school children will run everything, under supervision of their teachers and parents. What's new is the toilets. When the teams arrived, they saw that 6 homes lacked a working toilet and 5 had no toilet at all. Fortunately, when there is adequate slope villagers can build a complete gravity flushing toilet facility including an area for bucket showers for less than 1000 Thai Baht (about $30 US each), if the materials for all 11 toilets were hauled in at the same time, and experienced volunteers worked beside them. All they needed was concrete, PVC pipe, some roofing material, the actual