Sanergy Co-Founder David Auerbach and the UK Secretary of State for International Development, the Rt Hon Priti Patel MP. Photo courtesy of Sanergy.
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Fresh Life Operator Susan Wangari tells the Secretary of State, the High Commissioner and Mr Collymore about her experience of Fresh Life Toilets. Photo courtesy of Sanergy.
Sanergy Co-Founder David Auerbach explains the “business in a box” that every Fresh Life Operator receives when launching a Fresh Life Toilet. Photo courtesy of Sanergy.
Sanergy Co-Founder David Auerbach explains the company’s unique squat plate to the Secretary of State and High Commissioner. Photo courtesy of Sanergy.
The Rt Hon Priti Patel MP, the UK Secretary of State for International Development, visited Sanergy’s Mukuru office on Friday October 21st. She was joined by Nic Hailey, the UK High Commissioner to Kenya, and Bob Collymore, the CEO of major Kenyan communications company Safaricom.
Ms Patel met Sanergy staff, toured the Mukuru facilities and received a briefing from Sanergy co-founder David Auerbach on how Fresh Life Toilets work.
She also met with Fresh Life Operator Susan Wangari to learn about running a Fresh Life franchise.
During her conversation with Susan, it was clear Ms Patel was impressed to learn about the income-generation and job-creation aspects of the Fresh Life business. Susan has been able to pay her children’s school fees, and she has enough business to employ an attendant at her Fresh Life Toilet.
David Auerbach commented, “We were thrilled to host Ms Patel, High Commissioner Hailey, and Mr. Collymore and to demonstrate for them the impact of our improved sanitation value chain. We’re especially glad that Ms Patel had the opportunity to meet FLO Susan Wangari, since we know that our Fresh Life Operators are the strongest champions for hygienic sanitation in Nairobi’s informal settlements.”
Joanna Trevor, SWIFT Global Programme Manager, added, “It is testament to the innovative, life-changing work that Sanergy is doing that the Secretary of State made time in her busy schedule to visit David, Susan and the team in Mukuru. The SWIFT Consortium is funded entirely by UK aid from the British people and so I’m delighted that Ms Patel had the chance to see first-hand a project that we support, run by one of our partners.”
You can read more about Sanergy’s work with the SWIFT Consortium in Kenya here.
