IXL Social Enterprise Case Studies Water March 2011 | Page 5

Getting Safe Water and Sanitation to the Bottom of the Pyramid through Bold and Game-Changing Innovations

In Africa’s biggest slum of Kibera:
“Some say half a million people live there. Others put
the figure at more than a million.... Kiberans live in
tin shacks or mud “houses” with no toilets, no beds
and little water to speak of. Electricity is almost
non-existent… Children play on the heaps of bags of
‘flying toilets.’”26

“No privacy and public humiliation.”
Fearful that the boys would tease her if her uniform
got stained, 5