Why Sanitation? – Ukukhululeka

Ukukhululeka is a nonprofit organization bringing clean, safe and well managed sanitation services to people around the world.

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7 Myths about Urban Sanitation Debunked

Urban sanitation is often surrounded by misconceptions that hinder effective solutions.

How do we tackle the sanitation crisis?

1. Build.

Befree builds low-cost cost high high-quality eco-friendly sanitation products and services at a household level. A dry urine-diverting toilet allows for waste separation, no odors, and qaulity experience,

2. Collect.

BeFree's front-line team offers a regular waste collection service. We have built extensive, professional logistics team, consisting of youth from the communities. We guareantee that 100% of waste generated is safely removed.

3. Treat.

BeFree's partners with private companies like Liquid Gold Africa to guarantee safe treatment and reuse of waste removed from local communities. Liquid Gold Africa convert the waste into safe agricultural inputs

2.4 billion people in the world live without safe access to sanitation.

That is 35% of the global population, do not have access to adequate sanitation services. Inadequate sanitation generally means open defecation. When people defecate in the open without a proper waste management system, then the feces generally seep into and contaminates water systems. Just standing in an open defecation zone can lead to disease, if, for instance, the person is barefoot, and parasites are there.

Access to sanitation changes everything

Time

Access to clean safe sanitation services gives communities more time to grow food, earn an income, and go to school -- all of which fight poverty.

Health

reducing the spread of intestinal worms, schistosomiasis and trachoma, which are neglected tropical diseases that cause suffering for millions. reducing the spread of antimicrobial resistance

Women Empowerment

When a community get sanitation, women and girls get their lives back. They start businesses, improve their homes, and take charge of their own futures.

Job Creation

For a township dweller, employment and a steady income is a life-changing thing! And jobs created are likely to have a ripple effect in the local economy: more jobs mean more money circulating around the community.

Enviromental

Resource recovery of fertilizer and animal feed, from toilet resources waste; and potential to mitigate water scarcity through safe use of wastewater for irrigation.

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Education

Less time seeking for sanitation or waste removal means more time in class. Clean and proper toilets at school means teenage girls don’t have to stay home for a week out of every month.