We Answer the Question:

“How can we maximise the resources that developing countries have; to do the things they need to do …, while minimising the burden of public debt”

The 12th World Bank Group President

Jim Yong Kim

Targeting the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), we:

– build rainwater harvesting systems on schools’ rooftops, on roads that are crossing water starved areas, on open fields etc;

– purify rainwater for the ‘over–served’ in order to avail plenty of low-cost municipal water to the underserved;

– build toilets in toilet-less homes, schools and roads;

– bring medical services to villages & schools without the services; and,

– do menstrual hygiene management (MHM) as a tool for managing the toilets.

We work in least developed countries (LDCs) and lower-middle-income countries where –– to date –– projects like ours are done with funds from the traditional sources (e.g. public funds, overseas development assistance, individual donors, foundations and CSR).

$1.4 Trillion

in Annual Investments.

Funds from the traditional sources aren’t enough for SDGs at the scale that is needed for LDCs and lower-middle-income countries, which require about $1.4 trillion in annual investments.

$5 Trillion

Sitting In-cash

Therefore, we mobilize as follows some of $5 trillion currently sitting in cash with the private sector to our work.

We give rainwater harvesting systems, toilets, reusable sanitary towels and healthcare (the gifts) to villages and schools that you nominate for any of the gifts.

We are able to give to ALL nominees because we weave the giving into the fabric of daily lives –– like advertising (by brands) and seeing of logos & ads (by you). Due to the weaving, the giving is a truly growing activity.

In favour of your nominee, you just crowd scan any logos & ads that you see. You scan with our cloud-based and managed mobile phone digital service. At start of every calendar week, we check to see if your nominee is favoured by the largest crowd scanning and, when it is favoured by the largest crowd scanning, we give one of the gifts to the nominee during the week.

CROWD SCANNING LOGO & ADS

Therefore, nominate a village or school that you care about and choose logo(s) that you want to start crowd scanning around.

In favour of your nominee, you then just:

- scan the logo(s) and ads that are related to the logo(s) whenever you see the logo(s) and ads on computer and phone screens, on newspapers, on products, on notepads, business cards, packagings, receipts, stickers, vouchers…

- ask your family and friends –– who could be anywhere on the globe –– and villagers or managers of the school to do same (you may even use SMS, WhatsApp… to send photos of the logo(s) and ads to those that cannot access logo(s) and ad(s).

Consequently, global members of public (MOP) will:

- scan logos and ads in favour of your nominee whenever they see the logos and ads on computer and phone screens, on newspapers, on products, on notepads, business cards, packaging, receipts, stickers, vouchers…

- ask their family and friends –– who could be anywhere on the globe –– to do same (they will even use SMS, WhatsApp… to send photos of logos and ads to those that cannot access logos and ads).

Organisations/brands support. During the scanning above, the adverts and logos play on your phone screens videos about supporting organisations. The captivating videos help you and MOP scan for longer –– see above that the longer the scanning, the better for you and other MOP.

Nominate Village / School that you care about

We pay special attention to ‘dignity’

We build toilet(s) in a family home or in a school nominated [for the toilet(s)] by you, their “urbanised compatriot”. Before the nomination, the nominee agrees with you that they are willing to take our toilet(s).

You, typically a close relative/friend/leader to the nominee, are naturally compelled to: lower your social status; privately discuss with the school/family; and, agree with the nominee –– in such private discussions, coercion around it being “disgusting” or “undignified” to shit on the open ground, if any, is not expected to have any negative effects on the nominee.

Organisations/corporations/persons that draw your attention to their products, services, candidacy or events e.g. a political candidate, a business etc support this project in-kind –– you scan their products, receipts and adverts to support villages that you care about (to make your work easier, we list products and organisations whose adverts and barcodes are of value to your scanning).

Political candidates and family businesses have or want to have connections with their local area – they are more than happy to support this project. National and international chains, on the other hand, often have a strong social or community support ethos as part of their corporate policy, providing free or subsidised goods and services – and sometimes funding too – for local community initiatives. Businesses operate as part of communities and hold as much of a stake in supporting local community amenities and promoting civic pride as the locals themselves.

Therefore, families/schools are still lacking toilets, water, medical services and reusable sanitary towels because: you, their “urbanised compatriots” are just about to nominate them for toilets/water/towels/healthcare; and or, corporations/organisations are just about to be listed as an in-kind supporters of this project.

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Regarding toilets, RaHa is keen to reduce effects, on the poor, of shame [similar to those in community-led total sanitation (CLTS) and in adverts commonly used in sanitation marketing]. To promote the necessary uptake (because any percent of toilet-less-ness is bad, from the public health perspective), we shift effects of promoting conspicuous consumption (i.e. keeping up with or outdoing your neighbour) from the poor (who are affected negatively by this) to you, their urbanised compatriots, and to organisations/corporations.

We are guided by an assumption that beneficiaries see little value in low quality products like pit latrines (which may not be meeting UN definition of ‘improved sanitation’) mainly because they know that you, their more urbanized compatriots and favourite organizations, use much better toilets – in this sense, the pit is not different from open defecation (OD), its a mockery.

This explains why our medical service, toilets and rainwater harvesting systems are of very high quality standards.

Reusable sanitary pads, that we bring to teenage girls (especially those that we bring our toilets to) are for purposes of managing our sun-drying toilets –– the girls use them, not because the girls are less fortunate, but because disposables should not be disposed of in any type of toilets.

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We Answer the Question:

“How can we maximise the resources that developing countries have; to do the things they need to do …, while minimising the burden of public debt”

Targeting the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), we:

– build rainwater harvesting systems on schools’ rooftops, on roads that are crossing water starved areas, on open fields etc;

– purify rainwater for the ‘over–served’ in order to avail plenty of low-cost municipal water to the underserved;

– build toilets in toilet-less homes, schools and roads;

– bring medical services to villages & schools without the services; and,

– do menstrual hygiene management (MHM) as a tool for managing the toilets.

We work in least developed countries (LDCs) and lower-middle-income countries where –– to date –– projects like ours are done with funds from the traditional sources (e.g. public funds, overseas development assistance, individual donors, foundations and CSR).

$1.4 Trillion

in Annual Investments.

Funds from the traditional sources aren’t enough for SDGs at the scale that is needed for LDCs and lower-middle-income countries, which require about $1.4 trillion in annual investments.

$5 Trillion

Sitting In-cash

Therefore, we mobilize as follows some of $5 trillion currently sitting in cash with the private sector to our work.

We pay special attention to ‘dignity’

Join us in this vital work of raising communities out of poverty.

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We Answer the Question:

“How can we maximise the resources that developing countries have; to do the things they need to do …, while minimising the burden of public debt”

Targeting the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), we:

– build rainwater harvesting systems on schools’ rooftops, on roads that are crossing water starved areas, on open fields etc;

– purify rainwater for the ‘over–served’ in order to avail plenty of low-cost municipal water to the underserved;

– build toilets in toilet-less homes, schools and roads;

– bring medical services to villages & schools without the services; and,

– do menstrual hygiene management (MHM) as a tool for managing the toilets.

We work in least developed countries (LDCs) and lower-middle-income countries where –– to date –– projects like ours are done with funds from the traditional sources (e.g. public funds, overseas development assistance, individual donors, foundations and CSR).

$1.4 Trillion

in Annual Investments.

Funds from the traditional sources aren’t enough for SDGs at the scale that is needed for LDCs and lower-middle-income countries, which require about $1.4 trillion in annual investments.

$5 Trillion

Sitting In-cash

Therefore, we mobilize as follows some of $5 trillion currently sitting in cash with the private sector to our work.

We pay special attention to ‘dignity’

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