What happens when you scan a product? It doesn’t matter if you purchased a product in a store or online, sooner or later you will have that product in your hands. When you scan the barcode on a product or label with the DuGut™, we retrieve all kinds of information such as, if a product has been sold (by the manufacturer), to the location and time of the scan. After we collect the information, we either have an agreement with the brand or store, in which case they directly donate into our users’ DuGut™ accounts, or we make a suggestion to a brand or store to donate to the SDG of its customers’ choice.

Even with public health insurance available since 1966, only 20% of Kenyans have access to some sort of medical coverage, (others find the %age to be 3). With the population at over 44 million and rising, it means that as many as 35 million Kenyans are excluded from quality health care –– such a story can be said about access to clean water, toilets and sanitary towels in all low-income countries & lower middle-income countries.

From wherever you are (Asia, North America, South America, Europe, Australia, Africa and Antarctica, Zealandia), please nominate school(s) or village(s) that you care about for RaHa SystemsReusable Sanitary Towelsmedical cover and or toilets.

Although nominating will make little difference to your day, it will unlock funding from corporations that want to accelerateUHC, in favour of nominees.

NOTE: Nomination process includes:

  • sharing photo of nominee:
  • sharing about logos and barcodes that you frequently see on trash or receipts …&c ––  the same receipts that you get after paying for anything anywhere  (Asia, North America, South America, Europe, Australia, Africa and Antarctica, Zealandia); and,
  • pointing at the photo and at the trash or receipts …&c with your phone camera. 

what nominees get

RaHa gives your nominee(s) RaHa Systems (for the water-starved), Reusable Sanitary Towels (that also help girls finish school), medical cover (for those excluded from quality health care coverage) and or toilets (for the toilet-less).

We give free medical services offered by competent teams. When we, humans, have the right support systems to feel in control of our health, we’re empowered to stay healthy, prevent sickness, treat and beat it. When we feel supported to ask the right questions, and we see evidence that our entire care is well-coordinated and fully insured by a competent team—we’re more likely to take ownership over our health, live longer, and remain productive.

We build toilet(s) in homes or in schools that are nominated [for the toilet(s)]. Before the nomination, nominees agree with nominators that the nominees are willing to take our toilet(s).

Nominators, typically close relatives/friends/leaders to the nominees, are naturally compelled to: lower their social status; privately discuss with the schools/families; and, agree with the nominees –– in such private discussions, coercion around it being “disgusting” or “undignified” to defecate on the open ground, if any, is not expected to have any negative effects on the nominees.

Organisations/corporations/persons that draw nominators’ attention to products, services, candidacy or events e.g. a political candidate, a business etc support this project, in-kind (not in-cash) –– with their adverts and logos.

Political candidates and family businesses have or want to have connections with nominees and nominators –– 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 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 / free medical services.

More about toilets: RaHa is keen to reduce effects 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.

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, use much better toilets – in this sense, the pit is not different from open defecation (OD), it’s a mockery.

This explains why our medical servicetoilets and rainwater harvesting systems are of very high quality.

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

we cooperate with:

Medical cover organisations and virtual hospitals that we cooperate with do remarkable good in furthering the UHC in Kenya and around the world!

They are:

This is how you can cooperate with us:

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