Who Gives A Crap’s business model helps fund sustainable sanitation solutions in developing countries

"Sanitation and water safety are huge issues globally, with roughly 2.5 billion people living without access to clean water or toilets. As a result, patients suffering from water-related diseases fill the hospital beds around the world, with related conditions killing 900 children under the age of five every day. While water safety is one of the biggest issues facing the world, it isn’t the best dinner conversation starter because, let’s face it, no one wants to talk about what comes out of their other end while eating. While providing a community with access to clean water can be made sexy and sellable for middle class audiences, the reality of providing a community access to clean toilets is far from the pretty images of kids surrounding a water fountain." Read more

Liz Leigh Startup Daily 2 March 2016