The Indian Soilet Conference

On my last full day in India, we organized the Indian Soilet Conference to cap off everything we did in India. The goal was to pass on the Soilet's success to local organizations. So we had 16 organizations meet at a random church in the slum where all the Soilets were being built. We started with a powerpoint presentation about  Soilets and then walked down the road so they could behold the actual Soilets. Many of these organizations were skeptical about the whole thing (worms eating human waste???) until they saw it with their own eyes.  On one of the Soilets, I opened up the lid of the box, put on a latex glove, and grabbed a handful of worm-rich dirt. Amazingly it didn't even smell. There were plenty of "oos" and "aws"as they saw these waste-eating worms solving one of India's major sanitation issues. The conference was a success! And many of the organizations came out of the conference wanting to build their own Indian Soilet.