During an off day in Kenya on the Juhudi Kilimo project, IDEO.org visited the SmartLife store in Nairobi. You’ll recall that SmartLife is the social enterprise selling pure drinking water designed as part of a 2012 IDEO.org project  partnering with  Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP), Unilever, Aqua for All, and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN).  The SmartLife store launched in February and our IDEO.org team was excited to see how the new business was doing. 

An impact update from Nairobi, where the very first SmartLife store is opening its doors.

At IDEO.org, we talk a lot about looking at the whole ecosystem when we tackle a problem. While this has consistently framed our understanding and engagement on various projects, our scope of work has often focused on just one piece of the puzzle. However, Kenya Water + Health is a project where the problem at hand was the system itself.