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About Peepoo
Peepoople AB, a private for-profit organization, was set up in the year 2006 in Stockholm , Sweden. The company was the brainchild of Professor Andres Wilhelson, a renowned Swedish architect at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Prof. Wilhelson along with Camilla Wirseen came up with the idea of the Peepoobag. They together with Dr. Annika Nordin, Dr. Björn Vinnerås , Prof. Mikael Hedengvist , and Peter Thuvander were the founding members of Peepoople AB. The research on the Peepoo bag was conducted in cooperation with SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Science and KTH Royal Institute of Technology ....
Peepoo In Kenya
In June of 2010, Peepoople AB registered and incorporated Peepoople Kenya as a Non Government Organization (NGO) in Kenya. Peepoople Kenya was the initial launch project (ILP) of the company. Kibera, a growing neighborhood on the outskirts of the city of Nairobi, Kenya, was Nairobi’s largest slum and was one of the largest non legal settlements in Africa. The residents of Kibera had no access to basic amenities like running water, sanitation, or electricity. ...
Implmentation
One of the biggest driving forces for the implementation of Peepoo bags was that it offered a new solution to a very complicated old dilemma. By turning human waste into fertilizer in a relatively short period of time, the company was able to convert what could have been a problem into a valuable resource. In each market or context where Peepoo was introduced, the company considered the entire value chain. The distribution, collection, and reuse models could be varied depending on local conditions. ...
Problems During Implmentation
During the initial period of implementation, the Peepoo bag was looked down upon and was ridiculed by the people (mostly men) of the slum. The fact that they had to pay to relieve themselves when they could do it out in the open at no cost led to the ridicule. Hence, the Peepoople volunteers convinced a few women of each locality about the benefits of using the bag and trained them on how to use it. These women in turn spread the message of the benefits of the Peepoo bag. Gradually people started to adopt the product. ..
Peepoo Expansion Into South Asia
According to World Health Organization, in 2012, India alone had over 626 million people who defecated in the open. That accounted for almost 60% of the 1.1 billion who defecated in the open throughout the world. According to Prof. Eric Odada, Member of United Nations Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation, open defecation was the single largest problem faced by the world...
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