An impact update from Kumasi, Ghana, where a container load of 384 new Clean Team toilets has just arrived in town.

Some 1 billion city dwellers worldwide lack adequate sanitation facilities in their homes. In Kumasi, Ghana, a city of 2.5 million people, less than 20 percent of the population has in-home sanitation. Enter the Clean Team Uniloo toilet, a social enterprise that rents portable toilets to families and charges a weekly or monthly fee to collect the waste. The project came about as part of a collaboration between Unilever, Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP), IDEO, and IDEO.org.

By the end of 2012, Clean Team had 106 households as customers (with the average household containing upwards of 10 - 15 family members) and had begun production of 1,000 new Clean Team toilets. This January, the first container load of 384 Uniloo toilets arrived in Kumasi. Clean Team aims to service 1,000 households in 2013 and 10,000 households in 2014.

Pictured here are photos from the arrival of the first shipment of 384 Uniloo toilets and members of the Clean Team in action around Kumasi. 

Want more info on Clean Team? Check out the newly launched Clean Team website HERE.

--Sean Hewens, IDEO.org Knowledge Manager