Ducha Halo
2010-2012
Ducha Halo is a pressurized shower system for households living in poverty making less than $3 per day. Testing for this product has been done with over 80 families in the slums of Santiago, Chile as well as over 300 families in Argentina, Columbia, and Brazil.
DIY units were built and sold in limited production in partnership with DesignMatters and Un Techo para Chile.
My Partner:
Jessica Yeh
Organizers:
Farmers Information Exchange for Ghana
2011
This was an interview conducted with farmers of a village outside of Kumasi, Ghana. My team is proposing an automated phone system to for farmers to leave helpful farming tips and best practices for other farmers to call in and listen to.
A significant way to reduce poverty in rural regions of the world is to stimulate market activity.
In the summer of 2011, our team spent 2 months in Ghana developing methods to increase farming yield for subsistence farmers in rural communities. We prototyped a phone system that allows farmers to leave farming tips, best practices, and market pricing to benefit their neighbor farmers.
The famers loved the product, and genuinely found joy in using it. Unfortunately, after several weeks of meetings with major companies and non-profits in Ghana, we unable to raise additional funding to continue the project. The project then became a candidate project for future IDDS participants to continue.
Organizers:
International Development Design Summit
MIT D-Lab
The families of New Longoro, and Kumasi