Reusing Hotel soap to save lives
By doing hand wash and with proper sanitisation you can prevent yourself from many deadly diseases like Flu, COVID-19, Common Cold, Pneumonia etc. For example, Diarrheal disease kills approximately 1.8 million people per year. Globally, approximately 2.5 billion cases of diarrhoea occur among children under 5 years old every year. But how are hotel soaps saving lives? Yes, hotel soaps are saving many lives, according to Accor, a Scandic hotel chain observed that hotel guests use only 15% of the soaps, shampoos and conditioners found in the room, with the majority thrown away some even unused and in their original packaging. Thus, “Clean the World” is a non-profit organization from Orlando, Florida that recycles used hotel soap that might have been thrown away. They collect soap from millions of hotel rooms daily, send them to their recycling plants and turn them into new soap bars to distribute to families, schools, and organizations that don’t have access to basic sanitation and experience hygiene-related illnesses.
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| Source: cleantheworld.org |
Intelehealth Developed at Johns Hopkins University
Intelehealth is a telemedicine platform that connects Frontline Health Workers with remote doctors deliver primary care services at a distance in countries such as India. The FHW is guided by a digital assistant to provide evidence-based health services. For conditions that are beyond the capacity of the FHW+ digital assistant, she can connect with a virtual doctor over telemedicine.
They built an application that is easy-to-use, open-source, low bandwidth, driven by a digital assistant and telemedicine.
They provided training in technology-based primary health care delivery for all stakeholders - health workers, doctors, and project leadership. They provided capacity building services for organizations to implement digital health. Armed with powerful insights generated using structured data from Ayu which secure personal data that is provided on computer.
Desolenator
Today industrial desalination uses 0.4% of the global annual electricity and is on track to be responsible for 5% of global carbon emissions by 2040.
Hence Desolenator is introduced which is a solar-powered water purification system that is helping remote communities by producing clean drinking water. without the need for filters, chemicals or external energy sources. Through an integrated system combining optimised distillation, a novel heat exchange mechanism and re-mineralisation.
Desolanetor provide safe, drinking water using only sunshine and seawater. This helps them build water resilience in the face of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Inspired by nature, Desolenator replicates the water cycle by harnessing solar energy in a new way. After years of R&D, our team of engineers, alongside some of the world's leading water experts, have designed the next chapter in water innovation- Solar purification.
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