Product/Service Development

In Kenya, 95% of fecal sludge is disposed into the environment without treatment. The reason for this is quite simple: municipalities are unable to pay to treat human waste because they lack cost-effective options. To solve this problem, we work with partners to implement and operate waste processing factories.

Fresh Life Initiative builds healthy, prosperous communities by making safe sanitation, accessible and affordable for everyone, forever - starting with Nairobi, Kenya.

Loowatt develops safe, closed-loop sanitation solutions that provide high-quality access for all. Loowatt's unique toilet system uses patented sealing technology and polymer film to create a waterless “flush", providing the experience of a flush toilet without using water. The proposed project seeks to prove the efficiency and viability of our service model at scale, set to serve 15,000 people (3,000 additional toilets) after two years.

Very young adolescents in Madagascar need enhanced access to comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) before and during puberty to prepare against threats of sexual coercion and violence, unintended pregnancy, and childhood marriage. The Malagasy adolescent birth rate is 145, as compared to 95 for neighboring nations, meaning that one in three Malagasy girls will become a mother before she is 18 years old. The prevalence of child marriage is also one of the highest in the region, at 48%.

Our idea is to develop BiliSpec, a bilirubin monitoring device with a per-test cost of less than $0.10. BiliSpec includes: (1) a lateral-flow device to separate serum from whole blood in under 30 seconds and (2) a battery powered reader to measure light transmission through the separated serum on the strip and display the bilirubin concentration. We estimate our device could prevent the deaths of approximately ninety-thousand neonates who die every year due to lack of access to effective treatment and monitoring for neonatal jaundice in low-resource settings.

Quality crèches at worksites for children of working mothers- migrant, exploited and overburdened, at settings where almost nothing exists is the innovation. In informal survey, Mobile Creches understands that in best conditions a room with an untrained child minder is provided at worksites. Nutrition, health is below the national statistics. Employers shift responsibility of childcare to govt ICDS centres that are either non functional or rudimentary.

SOIL takes an innovative value-chain approach to solve the sanitation challenge through services specifically designed for dense urban communities where the public health risk is significantly elevated and communicable diseases have the potential to spread rapidly. . With the results-based financing, SOIL expects to reach 8000 households by 2025 in Cap-Haïtien.

Female sex workers (FSWs), including Transgender (TG) women in India are oppressed & highly stigmatized, living in acute poverty, routinely facing violence, sexual assault & rape. Health is a neglected issue due to discrimination at healthcare centers and economic insecurity. Our multi-level innovation enables & empowers FSWs to access timely pre & postexposure prophylaxis against HIV, STI testing, and psychological/legal support in a safe & non-judgmental manner that is currently unavailable.

Preclinical studies to finalize the development of the BD Odon™ Birthing Device prototype for testing in WHO study A65711

Adolescent pregnancies among continue to be a major concern in Kenya, with the proportion of teenagers who have started childbearing increasing from 2% at age 15 to 36% by age 19 in most LMICs like Kenya. Adolescents lack access to age-appropriate modern contraceptives due to lack of knowledge, costs, cultural taboos. Majority of sexually active out-of-school adolescents would go unreached through school-based programs. In Kenya adolescent girls have the lowest contraceptive use at 9%.