AWARD YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Clean Water & Sanitation
KEYWORDS
sanitation, Affordable, urbanizing
COUNTRY
United States of America
DESIGNED BY
Founders: Andrew Fote, Emily Woods
Designer: Elise Guinee Cooper
WEBSITE
http://www.sanivation.com/
Sanivation
Sanitation as a service.
Sanivation is a social enterprise dedicated to improving the overall dignity, health, and environment of urbanizing communities in East Africa through delivering clean, safe, and efficient sanitation services. In urbanizing communities we install modern container-based toilets in people's homes for free and charge a small monthly fee to service them. Then, instead of dumping the waste, we transform it into a clean burning alternative to charcoal. Our dependable, user-focused, and vertically integrated sanitation services address the full sanitation value chain and allow families living in urbanizing communities throughout East Africa to live a modern and healthy life. We license our model to refugee camps to help meet the demand for rapidly and locally deployable sanitation services. We work with implementing partners to design, build, and train local staff and refugees on operating improved sanitation services that meet the demands of camp residents.