working to bring \'hippos,\' and water, to haiti

by:Zhuangao     2019-10-15
(CNN)--
Grant Gibbs, like many people, looked at the news in Haiti and thought he wanted to help people in the earthquake --ravaged nation.
Unlike many, Gibbs is in a unique position to help the Haitian side to a large extent.
Gibbs, a South African, is the man behind a 90-year-old hippo water roll
A liter of plastic buckets, with a strong handle, can roll back from the river or the lake to the home in urgent need of water.
For nearly 20 years, Gibbon\'s Hippo water roller project has been selling innovative equipment in southern Africa.
But the cost of transporting hundreds of barrels of oil from South Africa to Haiti will be very high.
\"Getting hippo rollers into Haiti will buy more time for the government to rebuild the proper infrastructure,\" Gibbs said on a South African mobile phone Monday . \".
\"But it is prohibitive to pay for shipping from South Africa.
\"Thus, Haiti may be a good place to try out the new invention of Gibbons, a mobile hippo roller production plant located in used containers.
The cost of mobile devices is $150,000-
Tools mainly used to make plastic molds-
He says 650 rollers can be produced every month.
Two or three people can work in the factory, he said.
He said Gibbs hopes to send mobile factories to Haiti and Uganda later this year.
Turns out hippo roller is life
Change in Africa.
Poor villagers use them to reduce the number of visits to water sources.
Most African men, Gibbs says, think that it is women\'s job to go to water, so many young girls miss school and help their mothers go to rivers or lakes many times.
\"We have enough money to buy them for about 100 families, but we can use thousands,\" said Felipe Gibbs, national manager of Hunger Action in South Africa . \".
\"Just last week, I was in a village with thousands of families, even though the government planned to give them [
Water pipe
Not until 2014.
So before that, they had to collect water from [the river]
Three miles away. .
\"The problem is financial.
A hippo water roller costs $100 plus shipping.
It\'s a pretty expensive price for a South African or a charity that wants to buy a lot.
Most people buy with donated money.
In other cases, companies buy some and donate them to NGOs or villages.
More than 31,000 Hippo water rollers were distributed in Bukina Faso, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan and Zimbabwe.
\"We don\'t think it makes much sense to turn the tap on and pour a glass of water,\" feliciti Gibbs said . \".
\"These people don\'t have these luxuries.
Even with the hippo roller, most people still get water twice a day.
Grant Gibbs said transportation costs are high because his team is charged by air volume in the barrel rather than by weight.
Gibbs and his organization work with Engineers Without Borders and the H project, a nonprofit Design Group
Parts design that allow easier transportation.
Design will add 5-
Fold the number of products that can be put into a transport van.
But Gibbs is serious.
World use shows that single
The piece structure is essential to withstand stress on the drum while rolling a lot of water (
There are about 200 pounds hippos in an empty seat)
On uneven surfacesAnne Torres
The head of the team of Engineers Without Borders said her team also used the H project to brainstorm, including a water filter with hippo\'s hat.
Now, says feliciti Gibbs, villagers pour a bucket of household bleach into the water, and the rolling action mixes the detergent in the water, killing most of the bacteria.
Grant Gibbs lamented that he never had a budget to sell Hippo water rollers.
But he is excited about new projects, including the help of global change. S. -
Charities are trying to bring drinking water to the poor by funding different programs.
One of the projects is to build a mobile factory in Haiti.
Gibbs says he has been busy designing improvements to hippo rollers.
This includes hippo vendors, a shelf system that sets up shelves for villagers to sell goods.
\"They use it almost like a trolley,\" says feliciti Gibbs . \".
They put their fruits and vegetableson the rack]
They set up a stall there when they went to town.
Grant Gibbs said he also designed a shelf to bring a person to a doctor or infirmary.
But he says his biggest concern is to promote mobile labs to countries that can really use these help.
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