BioSand Water Filters 

 
Connect Africa has 4 Bio Sand Water Filter Factories at the CARC centers and has produced over 600 BSF filters in 2009. In partnership with the Center for Affordable Water and Sanitation (CAWST) from Calgary Alberta Canada, the Hub also operates a water quality testing lab, and monitors the water quality of the filters installed in the North. BSF training conferences are held several times a year at different centers so check the calendar for upcoming events.

Rocket Stoves 

 
Designed by the Connect Africa team, this rocket stove is made from recycled 45 gallon drums and recycled ISSB bricks and locally made in the CARC centers in Northern Uganda. Using 1 days fuel for a week of use, the CA rocket stove is a green solution that can use firewood or charcoal for a fuel source and can be made for pots sizes of 9 inch to 12.5 inch.
By concentrating the heat and cooking both the bottom and sides of the pot, the stove also reduces burns caused by the unstable nature of the traditional 3 rock stove.

Rainwater Harvesting Tanks 

 
The Rainwater Harvesting Tanks (RHT) are locally produced using ISSB rounded bricks and enable tank sizes of 5000 liter to 15,000 liter, and provide a cost effective, green solution to solving a communities water problems. An effective alternative to expensive bore hole wells, the RHT program trains local people to produce a locally available solution to their water crisis that provides much needed employment in the area. At half the cost of importing plastic tanks from Kampala, this program highlights the solutions that are locally available, and transfers the knowledge and skills to IDP camp residents and equips them to solve their own problems.

ISSB Bricks 

 
Interlocking Stabilized Soil Blocks (ISSB) play a key role in re-building programs Connect Africa facilitates in Northern Uganda. Our CARC centers, Rainwater tanks, Rocket stoves, and Eco-San toilets are all made using the ISSBs. Using the non organic sub soil and a binding agent (cement) the bricks are formed thru compression using a 3 man team of workers. The ISSB machine was designed locally in Uganda, and produced in Kenya and provides a practical and economical green solution to the deforestation problem gripping Africa.

Eco-San toilets 

 
The Ecologic Sanitary toilet (Eco-San) is a composting toilet that divides the urine from the feces and keeps the human waste out of the underground water-flow that feeds village wells. A cost effective solution to rehabilitating a poisoned boreholes and solving hygiene problems created in the crowded IDP camps, the Eco-San toilets built by Connect Africa fro ISSB bricks also enable the urine to be used as a local source of fertilizer for crops.

Village First Aid Kits 

 
The First Aid project used the book "Where there is No Doctor" and trains and equips local leaders and facilitates Churches in becoming first responders and impacting the health crisis in communities. Based in the CARC centers in the North, leaders from IDP camps and post conflict villages learn to host local hygiene seminars, identify vectors causing disease, and in a hands on way learn basic wound care. They then are equipped with a village first aid kit the treats up to 800 before needing refilling. Besides facilitating the local community to manage their own health care, the data collected from the first aid kits helps to verify the effectiveness of intervention technologies like BSF, Eco-San, and Rocket Stoves. The knowledge base is expanded on in yearly regional conferences that bring the village first aid workers together to share knowledge and experience with trained medical leaders from Kampala.

Agriculture Program 

 
Each CARC center is planted with medicinal Herbs and plants not locally available, and hybrid fruit trees and crops are introduced to the community in conferences and seminars. The demonstration farm at the Hub is able to host conferences and provides a hands on schooling of agricultural techniques and animal husbandry and poultry rearing.