JOELEX Accessible, Affordable Water, Sanitation and Organic Fertilizer for All

JOELEX makes water and sanitation accessible, affordable for the urban poor in Kampala, Uganda, by building, operating public water, toilets, showers, within slums, then collect the human waste and convert it into organic fertilizer. JOELEX has been operating over the last 20 months, have served at least 40,000 girls, women, children &youth with water, sanitation &showering services, successfully implemented its pay per user model on its facilities and done a pilot on the viability of converting the human waste into other products such as organic fertilizer. The model through a partnership with some of our partners such as Amref Health for Africa, have identified donors, who will help guarantee the loans of at least 1000 facilities in the next 1-3 years that micro-finance institutions will provide to the local leaders, entrepreneurs who will then make upfront payments to JOELEX. Also the donor's will help subside the cost of the facilities in order to make them more affordable, accessible and the loan easy to pay by the local leaders, entrepreneurs and land lords

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TTS-1911-30997
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Funding Amount (in original currency)
150000.00
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CAD
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0.7500000000
Funding Amount (in USD)
112500.00
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Funding Total (In US dollars)
112500.00
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