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Joberts 56 Mission 10 We are excited to complete our final mission and have been researching ways that we can help people in the world who have no access to clean water.After skyping with our partner teams across the US we decided that we would like to support the Cope Project. The Cope Project is based on helping people in rural Zambia. About 80% of Zambia's 10.2 million people live in the rural areas, an area about the size of Texas. Only 35% of rural areas have access to a safe water supply. People there suffer greatly from common and preventable disease because of exposure to polluted water. The Cope Project has developed two solutions to this problem: **Sanitation** Using a Zambian produced Ecodome or Otji waterless toilet, villagers will learn to install and maintain these toilets that keep waste from the environment. **Water pasteurization** Villages will be trained in water pasteurization techniques using a variety of technology methods including solar heating. **Waterless Toilets:** By separating fluids from solids, the unit safely holds the waste and removes smells. High temperatures generated inside cause a rapid and safe composting process. The solids retention tank is buried underground leaving the dome to absorb heat from the sun. With high temperatures insects and disease cannot survive. The 1200 litre unit can serve 30 people for up to 4 years. The EcoDome can then be safely emptied, then **//reused//** again.**Benefits:**
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 * no smell, no flies, no germs
 * fewer mosquitoes
 * easy to install and user-friendly
 * can be installed indoors
 * no ground water contamination
 * affordable, sustainable and permanent
 * composts fecal waste into fertilizer
 * local manufacture
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The plan is that Earth Charter US will begin an outreach project to get supporters for the COPE project. Supporters of the COPE project will select a village to fund. The money will go to the village to be used as part of the COPE strategies. People who donate will be able to follow each of their dollars .Their selected village will stay in touch with them through the Internet using pictures, video, and e-mails. In fact, donors can even go to visit their selected village to see the progress firsthand! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">Check out these videos about the project: [] [] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19.2px;">We would like our final mission to involve raising funds for a village to get an ecodome toilet