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Occupy Sandy Haitian Relief, a fledgling offshoot of the relief movement, is raising money to provide water filters and compost toilets in Haiti, where human waste is the biggest threat to human health.
The damage from Hurricane Sandy might seem like it all happened in New York and New Jersey, but the storm had a long path before it hit the East Coast. Flooding killed at least 54 people in Haiti and left tens of thousands more homeless. But the real issue from the storm may be that it exacerbated an already deadly problem: 7,600 Haitians have died over the past two years of a cholera epidemic. Cholera had been unknown for decades in Haiti; fingers are pointing at a Nepalese UN peacekeeping base that was found to be discharging untreated sewage. To help solve that problem, an offshoot of the Occupy movement’s Sandy relief effort is moving in to help bring relief in the form of composting toilets.
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