The Ukrainian-Finnish Joint Seminar on dry toilets
On 24th March 2007 the Ukrainian-Finnish Joint Seminar on dry toilet promotion experience exchange was held in Kyiv.
This Seminar was organized with support of the Embassy of Finland in Ukraine. The organizers were "MAMA-86" and Global Dry Toilet Club of Finland. The Seminar took place in the Water Informing Center — "Water Museum" of Kyiv city with a support and in cooperation with the Museum administration.
29 participants, including 2 representatives of the Global Dry toilet Club of Finland: Kati Hinkkanen and Anna Kuhmonen; representatives of the Embassy of Finland in Ukraine and representatives of different stakeholders and MAMA-86 network took part in the Seminar. The participants come from 12 cities and rural areas of Ukraine: Kyiv, Odessa, Feodosia, Artemivsk, Sevastopol, Mykilajv, Ternopil, Nova Kakhovka, Yaremche, Poltava, Nizhyn, Tatarbunary. Among the participants there were the representatives of MAMA-86 network, farmers, business, scientists, experts on waste waters management, students.
Jukka Pajarinen, the Second Secretary of the Embassy welcomed the Seminar participants and expressed the hope for a fruitful discussion and further cooperation of the Finnish and Ukrainian NGOs. There were 4 key presentations: "Dry toilet: building experience and promotion by GDTC of Finland" by Kati Hinkkanen and Anna Kuhmonen, GDTC of Finland; "Gozhuly experience on dry toilet building and maintenance" by Juliya Berezhna, MAMA-86-Poltava; "Vorokhta private dry toilets" by Roman Kudrin, MAMA-86-Yaremche; "Bobryk experience on school and private dry toilets" by Igor Shchokin, MAMA-86-Nizhyn. All presentations were actively discussed by the participants. The DT Guide was presented by Anna Tsvietkova and disseminated among the participants.
During the seminar there were expressed the interest from Ukrainian and Finnish participants on the usefulness of the experiences which accumulated by the partners and the wiliness to use the GDTC’s experience on DT in Ukraine as it is well adapted to the cold climate conditions. The GDT experts expressed the interest to learn more about urine diverting DT for promotion in Finland. The participants expressed the big interest for future common activities and project implementation.
