Sanergy: Sustainable Sanitation
| Case Code: LDEN106 Case Length: 19 Pages Period: 2010-2015 Pub Date: 2016 Teaching Note: Available |
Price: Rs.600 Organization : Sanergy Industry: Sanitation Countries : Kenya Themes: Social Entrepreneurship |
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Introduction
In 2012, a three-year-old boy, a resident of a sprawling slum in the western Kenyan city of Kisumu, died after falling into an open pit toilet in the area while playing with other kids. His inconsolable mother, Nancy Anyango, said, "The waste produces a pungent smell, and when it rains, it floods our houses, and we are forced to move out. The lives of our children, too, are in danger because they play inside the filth." Slums like the one in Kenya, with its deteriorating sanitation facilities, existed in most of the developing and underdeveloped countries and were home to a huge population comprising the poorer sections of society.
While to most people, such abysmal sanitation facilities were an indication of a human-rights crisis, to David Auerbach (Auerbach), a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate, they also appeared to be a social entrepreneurial gold mine. The scale of the sanitation problem prompted this young social entrepreneur to start a social enterprise, Sanergy, along with some of his fellow students. In January 2010, with support from an award they won at MIT, Auerbach and his founding team arrived at the Kenyan capital of Nairobi to address the dangerous and intractable problem of sanitation plaguing urban slums. The move raised several questions: Is sparking entrepreneurialism a way to combat the sanitation crisis? What should the business model of a company addressing this issue be? And can such businesses remain sustainable in the long run?
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