The first member of her extended family to attend college, Chikondi Precious Chabvuta was celebrated by her entire community when she started her studies in Environmental Science at Bunda College in 2005. “My interest in and dedication to the lab work on the nutrient contents of manure caught my lecturer’s attention,” she recalls, “and right after graduation, he called and offered me a job on a project investigating the effect of human manure and urine on maize yield.” Little did Chabvuta know that she would be required to train resource-poor, slum-dwelling women on how to use the composted night soil from Ecosan toilets. “Because of my inexperience in working with people, I ended up losing half of the group of 15 women within the first week,” she remembers.