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🗓️ 14 March 2016
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be |
| 0:05.1 | but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling. Join up dots features |
| 0:10.4 | amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams. |
| 0:15.0 | This is your blueprint for greatness. |
| 0:18.0 | So here's your host, live from the back of his garden in the UK, David Ralph. |
| 0:22.8 | Yes, hello there everybody and welcome to join up dots. |
| 0:30.2 | This is episode 503. I'm David Ralph and one of the brilliant things about this show is I never know where I'm going. |
| 0:37.0 | So I was sitting here ready to record with today's guest thinking that she was in America and she threw a curveball at me and |
| 0:45.4 | she's in Africa so we're gonna touch on how she's moved from there to there |
| 0:49.0 | what she's doing and it's gonna be a good show today because she is |
| 0:52.4 | somebody that I suppose she's tackling something that so many people would have ignored or left for someone else to do. |
| 0:59.0 | She's tackling the world's water and sanitation issues. |
| 1:03.0 | In 2014, her senior design team won the Georgia Tech Inventure Prize competition, |
| 1:09.0 | the largest undergraduate invention competition in the United States, |
| 1:12.0 | but their design of an inexpensive mobile |
| 1:15.2 | toilet called Safichu. Now alongside her team at Wishwash, she's taken her specific design |
| 1:20.6 | passion and set out to improve women's health by means of |
| 1:23.8 | redesigning wash infrastructure such as toilets and menstrual hygiene products |
| 1:28.8 | in and for the low-income communities of the world as according to UNICEF 2.6 billion people lack |
| 1:35.1 | hygienic sanitation facilities and 768 million people drink |
| 1:39.9 | unsafe drinking water and of these people women and girls are disproportionately |
| 1:44.8 | burdened by poor sanitation and water inequities. Now big bold movements |
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