| Title | The business of waste |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2013 |
| Authors | Auerbach, D |
| Pagination | 3 p.; photographs |
| Date Published | 2013-07-01 |
| Publisher | USAID |
| Place Published | Washington, DC, USA |
| Keywords | access to sanitation, case studies, kenya, urban areas, urban communities |
| Abstract | Eight million people in urban Kenya do not have access to a simple, hygienic latrine. But those numbers are going down, one toilet at a time. Sanergy, a company founded in 2010 and awarded a $100,000 grant from USAID a year later, builds low-cost, concrete sanitation centers resembling porta potties that are each designed to serve 80 people per day with clean toilet services. The centers are sold to local entrepreneurs on a franchise model, which not only addresses the serious need for toilet facilities in Nairobi—a city of over 3 million people—but also creates jobs. There are at least 70 sanitation facilities now open, serving as many as 4,000 people every day.[authors abstract] |
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