Water and Sanitation - Africa

Well I can't believe it's been 3 months already since I started the blog, how time fly's. I have really enjoyed writing this blog and have learnt so much in the process, looking back I believe there has been a nice sequence of events to this blog. Let me know down in the comments your thoughts and which Blog post you found the most eye opening. I believe that sanitation will always lag behind water, so improved water supplies will happen before better sanitation.  To end, I attached below a great TED talk looking at water and sanitation that I have come across, and provides a great re-cap on many of the topic I have covered in the past weeks and makes for an interesting watch. https://www.ted.com/talks/rose_george_let_s_talk_crap_seriously

Happy New Year everyone !! In the last blog I explored some successful social enterprises which are using the micro-franchise entrepreneurs model, in this blog I want to show how while an idea might be great and everyone is talking about you, without profit its worthless. Community Cleaning Services (CCS) i s a great example of micro entrepreneurship and franchise model being implemented, below is a short video clip about CCS. The company behind the creation is SC Johnson and they are a large international company in the cleaning products sector.  This post again relates back to my past blog which looked at corporate social responsibility and how companies want to target consumers at the base f the pyramid. Well SC Johnson is a great example, they wanted to explore how to sell their products to a unknown market at the same time and being socially responsible. This is how CCS came about in 2005 in Kenya. Hope yo...