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Next Thursday, March 12, consider supporting MIT D-Lab! Developing design and engineering capacity and small-scale technologies in low – resource communities around the world!

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TOMORROW, March 13, is the MIT 24 Hour Challenge and D-Lab will need your help. In light of recent funding cuts and attacks on the very concept of humanitarian aid, D-Lab needs support now more than ever. See you tomorrow!

¡Hola Todos! During the D-LAB: Development class of Fall 2024, a group of students partnered with the Peregrine Fund to run a co-design workshop with the community of Los Limones in the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 Community members focused on designing prototypes to aid conservation efforts dedicated to the Ridgeway’s Hawk, an endangered and endemic species. Throughout 2 weeks, they successfully applied the design cycle across three bombastic teams focusing on health, agriculture, and animal protection ✨✨

¡Hola Todos! During the D-LAB: Development class of Fall 2024, a group of students partnered with the Peregrine Fund to run a co-design workshop with the community of Los Limones in the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 Community members focused on designing prototypes to aid conservation efforts dedicated to the Ridgeway’s Hawk, an endangered and endemic species. Throughout 2 weeks, they successfully applied the design cycle across three bombastic teams focusing on health, agriculture, and animal protection ✨✨

¡Hola Todos! During the D-LAB: Development class of Fall 2024, a group of students partnered with the Peregrine Fund to run a co-design workshop with the community of Los Limones in the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 Community members focused on designing prototypes to aid conservation efforts dedicated to the Ridgeway’s Hawk, an endangered and endemic species. Throughout 2 weeks, they successfully applied the design cycle across three bombastic teams focusing on health, agriculture, and animal protection ✨✨

¡Hola Todos! During the D-LAB: Development class of Fall 2024, a group of students partnered with the Peregrine Fund to run a co-design workshop with the community of Los Limones in the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 Community members focused on designing prototypes to aid conservation efforts dedicated to the Ridgeway’s Hawk, an endangered and endemic species. Throughout 2 weeks, they successfully applied the design cycle across three bombastic teams focusing on health, agriculture, and animal protection ✨✨

¡Hola Todos! During the D-LAB: Development class of Fall 2024, a group of students partnered with the Peregrine Fund to run a co-design workshop with the community of Los Limones in the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 Community members focused on designing prototypes to aid conservation efforts dedicated to the Ridgeway’s Hawk, an endangered and endemic species. Throughout 2 weeks, they successfully applied the design cycle across three bombastic teams focusing on health, agriculture, and animal protection ✨✨

¡Hola Todos! During the D-LAB: Development class of Fall 2024, a group of students partnered with the Peregrine Fund to run a co-design workshop with the community of Los Limones in the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 Community members focused on designing prototypes to aid conservation efforts dedicated to the Ridgeway’s Hawk, an endangered and endemic species. Throughout 2 weeks, they successfully applied the design cycle across three bombastic teams focusing on health, agriculture, and animal protection ✨✨

¡Hola Todos! During the D-LAB: Development class of Fall 2024, a group of students partnered with the Peregrine Fund to run a co-design workshop with the community of Los Limones in the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 Community members focused on designing prototypes to aid conservation efforts dedicated to the Ridgeway’s Hawk, an endangered and endemic species. Throughout 2 weeks, they successfully applied the design cycle across three bombastic teams focusing on health, agriculture, and animal protection ✨✨

¡Hola Todos! During the D-LAB: Development class of Fall 2024, a group of students partnered with the Peregrine Fund to run a co-design workshop with the community of Los Limones in the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 Community members focused on designing prototypes to aid conservation efforts dedicated to the Ridgeway’s Hawk, an endangered and endemic species. Throughout 2 weeks, they successfully applied the design cycle across three bombastic teams focusing on health, agriculture, and animal protection ✨✨

¡Hola Todos! During the D-LAB: Development class of Fall 2024, a group of students partnered with the Peregrine Fund to run a co-design workshop with the community of Los Limones in the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 Community members focused on designing prototypes to aid conservation efforts dedicated to the Ridgeway’s Hawk, an endangered and endemic species. Throughout 2 weeks, they successfully applied the design cycle across three bombastic teams focusing on health, agriculture, and animal protection ✨✨

¡Hola Todos! During the D-LAB: Development class of Fall 2024, a group of students partnered with the Peregrine Fund to run a co-design workshop with the community of Los Limones in the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 Community members focused on designing prototypes to aid conservation efforts dedicated to the Ridgeway’s Hawk, an endangered and endemic species. Throughout 2 weeks, they successfully applied the design cycle across three bombastic teams focusing on health, agriculture, and animal protection ✨✨

¡Hola Todos! During the D-LAB: Development class of Fall 2024, a group of students partnered with the Peregrine Fund to run a co-design workshop with the community of Los Limones in the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 Community members focused on designing prototypes to aid conservation efforts dedicated to the Ridgeway’s Hawk, an endangered and endemic species. Throughout 2 weeks, they successfully applied the design cycle across three bombastic teams focusing on health, agriculture, and animal protection ✨✨

Last week, we had the opportunity to spend some time with a team of MIT D-Lab @mitdlab students. We presented what IRIS @irisresponse is doing and the approach we are taking to improve health outcomes for vulnerable people in Athens, Greece. It was great meeting them, hearing about their experiences, and learning of their interest in humanitarian development.

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Την περασμένη εβδομάδα, είχαμε την ευκαιρία να περάσουμε χρόνο με μια ομάδα φοιτητών του MIT D-Lab @mitdlab. Παρουσιάσαμε τι κάνει η IRIS @irisresponse και την προσέγγιση που ακολουθούμε, ώστε να βελτιώσουμε τα αποτελέσματα της υγείας ανθρώπων που είναι ευάλωτοι ή υποεξυπηρετούνται στην Αθήνα. Ήταν υπέροχο που τους γνωρίσαμε, που ακούσαμε για τις εμπειρίες τους και το ενδιαφέρον τους για την Ανθρωπιστική Δράση.

#iris #irisresponse #healthforall #righttohealth #sdg3 #healthequity #healthcare #universalhealthcoverage #ΜΙΤdlab #humancentereddesign #designthinking #socialinnovation #humanitarianaid

For our last workshop, we invited community members to a cultural food exchange. We shared recipes and made shingara, mango lassi, Mexican wedding cookies, and mochi with strawberries and cream together! Amena ‘23 also brought henna cones from her trip with MISTI Nepal.

It was a wonderful celebration to end the workshop series on water quality and testing!

For our next steps, we are developing recommendations to improve the effectiveness of the biological water treatment system. We have also filmed a series of videos and created documentation on different water quality tests. We discuss each test’s importance, methods, and how to interpret the results. We plan to share these with the community to increase awareness and action on water quality.

Special thanks to our community partners in Colombia @diversa.co and @ecoconcientizate!

Photo Credits:
Photo 1: Diana Gamba
Photo 2-6: Libby Hsu

For our last workshop, we invited community members to a cultural food exchange. We shared recipes and made shingara, mango lassi, Mexican wedding cookies, and mochi with strawberries and cream together! Amena ‘23 also brought henna cones from her trip with MISTI Nepal.

It was a wonderful celebration to end the workshop series on water quality and testing!

For our next steps, we are developing recommendations to improve the effectiveness of the biological water treatment system. We have also filmed a series of videos and created documentation on different water quality tests. We discuss each test’s importance, methods, and how to interpret the results. We plan to share these with the community to increase awareness and action on water quality.

Special thanks to our community partners in Colombia @diversa.co and @ecoconcientizate!

Photo Credits:
Photo 1: Diana Gamba
Photo 2-6: Libby Hsu

For our last workshop, we invited community members to a cultural food exchange. We shared recipes and made shingara, mango lassi, Mexican wedding cookies, and mochi with strawberries and cream together! Amena ‘23 also brought henna cones from her trip with MISTI Nepal.

It was a wonderful celebration to end the workshop series on water quality and testing!

For our next steps, we are developing recommendations to improve the effectiveness of the biological water treatment system. We have also filmed a series of videos and created documentation on different water quality tests. We discuss each test’s importance, methods, and how to interpret the results. We plan to share these with the community to increase awareness and action on water quality.

Special thanks to our community partners in Colombia @diversa.co and @ecoconcientizate!

Photo Credits:
Photo 1: Diana Gamba
Photo 2-6: Libby Hsu

For our last workshop, we invited community members to a cultural food exchange. We shared recipes and made shingara, mango lassi, Mexican wedding cookies, and mochi with strawberries and cream together! Amena ‘23 also brought henna cones from her trip with MISTI Nepal.

It was a wonderful celebration to end the workshop series on water quality and testing!

For our next steps, we are developing recommendations to improve the effectiveness of the biological water treatment system. We have also filmed a series of videos and created documentation on different water quality tests. We discuss each test’s importance, methods, and how to interpret the results. We plan to share these with the community to increase awareness and action on water quality.

Special thanks to our community partners in Colombia @diversa.co and @ecoconcientizate!

Photo Credits:
Photo 1: Diana Gamba
Photo 2-6: Libby Hsu

For our last workshop, we invited community members to a cultural food exchange. We shared recipes and made shingara, mango lassi, Mexican wedding cookies, and mochi with strawberries and cream together! Amena ‘23 also brought henna cones from her trip with MISTI Nepal.

It was a wonderful celebration to end the workshop series on water quality and testing!

For our next steps, we are developing recommendations to improve the effectiveness of the biological water treatment system. We have also filmed a series of videos and created documentation on different water quality tests. We discuss each test’s importance, methods, and how to interpret the results. We plan to share these with the community to increase awareness and action on water quality.

Special thanks to our community partners in Colombia @diversa.co and @ecoconcientizate!

Photo Credits:
Photo 1: Diana Gamba
Photo 2-6: Libby Hsu

For our last workshop, we invited community members to a cultural food exchange. We shared recipes and made shingara, mango lassi, Mexican wedding cookies, and mochi with strawberries and cream together! Amena ‘23 also brought henna cones from her trip with MISTI Nepal.

It was a wonderful celebration to end the workshop series on water quality and testing!

For our next steps, we are developing recommendations to improve the effectiveness of the biological water treatment system. We have also filmed a series of videos and created documentation on different water quality tests. We discuss each test’s importance, methods, and how to interpret the results. We plan to share these with the community to increase awareness and action on water quality.

Special thanks to our community partners in Colombia @diversa.co and @ecoconcientizate!

Photo Credits:
Photo 1: Diana Gamba
Photo 2-6: Libby Hsu

The second workshop with the community in Agua Bonita was taking water samples from the biological treatment system at different points and performing initial quality testing for turbidity and coliforms.

We took samples at the entrance and exit of each filtration step, where accessible, to understand the impact of each step on water quality.

Tubidity is a measure of suspended solids represented by the appearance of the water. Highly turbid water is aesthetically displeasing to drink and may indicate the presence of contaminants in the water. We used a turbidity tube (slide 4) to measure the relative clarity of the samples.

Coliforms are bacteria that come from human and animal waste. They can make us sick if ingested, so detecting coliforms is important for human health. We did two different types of coliform tests: a colilert tube (slide 5) which tells us if there are any colonies in the sample and a petrifilm test (slide 6) which quantifies the number of coliform colonies in the sample.

We enjoyed working with the community in Agua Bonita, @diversa.co, and @ecoconcientizate to take samples and conduct tests!

Photo Credits:
Connie Ly

The second workshop with the community in Agua Bonita was taking water samples from the biological treatment system at different points and performing initial quality testing for turbidity and coliforms.

We took samples at the entrance and exit of each filtration step, where accessible, to understand the impact of each step on water quality.

Tubidity is a measure of suspended solids represented by the appearance of the water. Highly turbid water is aesthetically displeasing to drink and may indicate the presence of contaminants in the water. We used a turbidity tube (slide 4) to measure the relative clarity of the samples.

Coliforms are bacteria that come from human and animal waste. They can make us sick if ingested, so detecting coliforms is important for human health. We did two different types of coliform tests: a colilert tube (slide 5) which tells us if there are any colonies in the sample and a petrifilm test (slide 6) which quantifies the number of coliform colonies in the sample.

We enjoyed working with the community in Agua Bonita, @diversa.co, and @ecoconcientizate to take samples and conduct tests!

Photo Credits:
Connie Ly

The second workshop with the community in Agua Bonita was taking water samples from the biological treatment system at different points and performing initial quality testing for turbidity and coliforms.

We took samples at the entrance and exit of each filtration step, where accessible, to understand the impact of each step on water quality.

Tubidity is a measure of suspended solids represented by the appearance of the water. Highly turbid water is aesthetically displeasing to drink and may indicate the presence of contaminants in the water. We used a turbidity tube (slide 4) to measure the relative clarity of the samples.

Coliforms are bacteria that come from human and animal waste. They can make us sick if ingested, so detecting coliforms is important for human health. We did two different types of coliform tests: a colilert tube (slide 5) which tells us if there are any colonies in the sample and a petrifilm test (slide 6) which quantifies the number of coliform colonies in the sample.

We enjoyed working with the community in Agua Bonita, @diversa.co, and @ecoconcientizate to take samples and conduct tests!

Photo Credits:
Connie Ly

The second workshop with the community in Agua Bonita was taking water samples from the biological treatment system at different points and performing initial quality testing for turbidity and coliforms.

We took samples at the entrance and exit of each filtration step, where accessible, to understand the impact of each step on water quality.

Tubidity is a measure of suspended solids represented by the appearance of the water. Highly turbid water is aesthetically displeasing to drink and may indicate the presence of contaminants in the water. We used a turbidity tube (slide 4) to measure the relative clarity of the samples.

Coliforms are bacteria that come from human and animal waste. They can make us sick if ingested, so detecting coliforms is important for human health. We did two different types of coliform tests: a colilert tube (slide 5) which tells us if there are any colonies in the sample and a petrifilm test (slide 6) which quantifies the number of coliform colonies in the sample.

We enjoyed working with the community in Agua Bonita, @diversa.co, and @ecoconcientizate to take samples and conduct tests!

Photo Credits:
Connie Ly

The second workshop with the community in Agua Bonita was taking water samples from the biological treatment system at different points and performing initial quality testing for turbidity and coliforms.

We took samples at the entrance and exit of each filtration step, where accessible, to understand the impact of each step on water quality.

Tubidity is a measure of suspended solids represented by the appearance of the water. Highly turbid water is aesthetically displeasing to drink and may indicate the presence of contaminants in the water. We used a turbidity tube (slide 4) to measure the relative clarity of the samples.

Coliforms are bacteria that come from human and animal waste. They can make us sick if ingested, so detecting coliforms is important for human health. We did two different types of coliform tests: a colilert tube (slide 5) which tells us if there are any colonies in the sample and a petrifilm test (slide 6) which quantifies the number of coliform colonies in the sample.

We enjoyed working with the community in Agua Bonita, @diversa.co, and @ecoconcientizate to take samples and conduct tests!

Photo Credits:
Connie Ly

The second workshop with the community in Agua Bonita was taking water samples from the biological treatment system at different points and performing initial quality testing for turbidity and coliforms.

We took samples at the entrance and exit of each filtration step, where accessible, to understand the impact of each step on water quality.

Tubidity is a measure of suspended solids represented by the appearance of the water. Highly turbid water is aesthetically displeasing to drink and may indicate the presence of contaminants in the water. We used a turbidity tube (slide 4) to measure the relative clarity of the samples.

Coliforms are bacteria that come from human and animal waste. They can make us sick if ingested, so detecting coliforms is important for human health. We did two different types of coliform tests: a colilert tube (slide 5) which tells us if there are any colonies in the sample and a petrifilm test (slide 6) which quantifies the number of coliform colonies in the sample.

We enjoyed working with the community in Agua Bonita, @diversa.co, and @ecoconcientizate to take samples and conduct tests!

Photo Credits:
Connie Ly

Hello! We are students from the D-Lab: WASH and D-Lab: Development classes, currently in Colombia. We are visiting communities around Bogotá to host workshops with @diversa.co and @ecoconcientizate about water quality monitoring techniques for the biological water treatment systems in their households.

Our first workshop was an overview of the types of contaminants that can be found in household water and the steps of the biological water treatment process.

The treatment system shown in slide two has two paths: grey water (from sinks and showers) and black water (from toilets). The grey water goes through a grease trap, separating the water from oils and solids. The black water goes through the vermifilter, a large tank consisting of worms and soil at the top with layers of gravel underneath. The worms process the solid waste, and the microorganisms on the gravel further process the liquid waste. The water from both of these paths flows into an artifical wetland where plants take up nitrates and phosphates and further purify the water before it is released into natural waterways. 🪱🌱💧

Stay tuned for more information about our work this summer!

Photo Credits:
Picture 1 - Workshop - Connie Ly
Picture 2 - Biological Treatment System Flow Chart - Diana Gamba @diversa.co

Hello! We are students from the D-Lab: WASH and D-Lab: Development classes, currently in Colombia. We are visiting communities around Bogotá to host workshops with @diversa.co and @ecoconcientizate about water quality monitoring techniques for the biological water treatment systems in their households.

Our first workshop was an overview of the types of contaminants that can be found in household water and the steps of the biological water treatment process.

The treatment system shown in slide two has two paths: grey water (from sinks and showers) and black water (from toilets). The grey water goes through a grease trap, separating the water from oils and solids. The black water goes through the vermifilter, a large tank consisting of worms and soil at the top with layers of gravel underneath. The worms process the solid waste, and the microorganisms on the gravel further process the liquid waste. The water from both of these paths flows into an artifical wetland where plants take up nitrates and phosphates and further purify the water before it is released into natural waterways. 🪱🌱💧

Stay tuned for more information about our work this summer!

Photo Credits:
Picture 1 - Workshop - Connie Ly
Picture 2 - Biological Treatment System Flow Chart - Diana Gamba @diversa.co