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How Bath Uni engineer Nav made poverty-busting washing machines for under $ 30 | Oxfam GB
Bath University engineer Nav Sawhney made a poverty-busting washing machines for under $ 30 after discovering how much time and effort women and girls had to…
Bath University engineer Nav Sawhney made a poverty-prone washing machine for less than $ 30 after finding out how much time and effort women and girls spent washing clothes.
“A mother or child doesn't have to spend 20 hours a week washing their hands,” says Nav Sawhney, a Bath University student.
Nav has developed a new, manual, portable washing machine. Oxfam and the Iraq Response Innovation Lab are installing 50 Nav machines in an Iraqi refugee camp.
Divya, a woman who got to know Nav in South India, had the idea when she explained the fight against washing clothes without a machine. This time-consuming physical strain is often borne by women and girls in developing countries.
Now Nav's washing machines, which he named Divya after the woman who inspired her, could give women and young girls time for training and paid work.
