Wish for WASH: Bringing Innovation to Sanitation My name is Jasmine Burton and I am writing to you because my social start up called Wish for WA...

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Wish for WASH: Bringing Innovation to Sanitation My name is Jasmine Burton and I am writing to you because my social start up called Wish for WA...
Wish for WASH: Bringing Innovation to Sanitation My name is Jasmine Burton and I am writing to you because my social start up called Wish for WASH, LLC which excited to officially launch our fundraising campaign. It will support our planned toilet pilot in Zambia next year. I am currently living in Lusaka, Zambia full time (but am from Atlanta, GA) as a Global Health Corps fellow and with your help, I will be able to test and implement several of our new toilets in low resource communities within Zambia alongside of my incredible team! Wish for WASH, LLC is a social impact organization that strives to bring innovation to sanitation through culturally specific design, research, and education. The SafiChoo toilet system, Wish for WASH’s first sanitation model tailored initially intended for a Kenyan refugee community, premiered in Fall 2013 as a Georgia Tech senior design project. Since then, our team has evolved into a talented group of young and diverse engineers, designers, business analysts, and development researchers - dedicating their skills to disrupt how the world is tackling sanitation relief products and services. The most current SafiChoo design is composed of separate, modular units, which enables the user to chose the elements of the system to best meet their specific needs. Our collective teamwork and my exposure through the Spring 2015 TedxAtlanta talk in addition to a number of other speaking events has brought Wish for WASH to the attention of numerous international aid and relief agencies interested in our mission and products.Our efforts are now turned toward completing a beta test in Spring 2016 in communities outside of Lusaka, Zambia, which will focus on user experience and overall feasibility of the product in partnership with our target users. More information about our project can be found on our Indiegogo page here. We are a young group of diverse WASH enthusiasts and we could definitely use all the help that we can get! More information can be found in our press release attached below.

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