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Shit business is serious business
Nissa Lee | Fri, Jan 25th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: nissa lee, ashoka-lemelson fellowship program, world toilet organization, shit business, dignified mobile toilets, urban development institute | 0
Dilapidated neighborhood environments are often thought of as the result of poverty, but sanitation entrepreneurs around the world would like to think that it’s the other way around: poverty is, in part, the result of unsavory living conditions. So instead of grappling with the complex monster of economics, why not make changes that are tangible to the people?
The Ashoka-Lemelson Fellowship Program supports inventors and entrepreneurs who do just that. Five Fellows in particular are…
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