Ecotact is a Social Enterprise incorporated in Kenya in 2006 with the sole objective of developing innovative social investments in environmental sanitation and management in Africa and beyond. The fundamental purpose of Ecotact is to develop and stimulate local investments in social and environmental ventures that offer immense life-impacts to the general citizens. These include investments in sanitation in urban centers and urban slums in Kenya and the region, in a sustainable way.
Open defecation and flying toilet still remain the predominant methods of
human waste disposal in urban slums, a situation that offers great planning,
health and socioeconomic challenges to governments and development partners
in Eastern African region. In the world, nearly a billion people lack access
to safe drinking water and 2.5 billion people lack access to sanitation
(half of whom must defecate in the open due to lack of infrastructure
development). To combat this problem, Ecotact launched the Ikotoilet
initiatives two years ago and have invested US$1.2 Million to date in
construction of 40 facilities in 12 Municipalities in Kenya and serving an
average of 300,000 people daily with safe water and sanitation and create a
pool of 100 employees.
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