The ruins of many fun sightseeing – nature calls but there is no place to go.
While the man is relatively easy, disappears behind the trash or trees or goes between cars and by track, the city – although controlled by tourists, workers, occupants and students – have never been a bladder friend for women.
It changes now with four entrepreneurs along with the toilet board coalition, global non-profit works with business, government institutions, and NGOs to improve the sanitation economy, help women in the city respond to natural calls in the public toilets explain cleanliness, safety and dignity.
The social effort activated by this technology is called Wolooo – Short for Women’s Loo – has partnered with 1200 small rooms in Mumbai to provide women with what they call “cleanliness dignity”.
Through the application, users can find clean and safe geographical toilets – in restaurants, cafes and salons – within 2 kilometers of their location and use facilities, which usually only become customers.
“Every time there are conversations about access to cleanliness or public toilets, we always talk about slums and villages but women urban workers face the same problem.
Our team visited 300 public toilets in Mumbai where only 20% were made for women and could not even be used .
in Mumbai four million women traveling by train every day.
Many are on the road for hours and had no choice but to hold their encouragement.
Many who avoid drinking water and those who find toilet, eventually contracted the infection, “said Manish Kelshikar , Co-Firern and Chief Business Officer Woloo who quit their work in the retail sector to complete what starts as a personal trigger.
“I have a girl who is 20 years old now but three years ago when she began to go to college, she faced a very suffering day because she came out and had no place to change the pad during menstruation.
It hit me hard,” said Kelsikar who departed to design Wolooo as “Airbnb of Toilet”.
In the era where personal hygiene was more critical than before, Kelsikar said that the restaurant and cafe too, have found that providing clean public toilets get strong dividends through increasing traffic.
“Clean toilets mean that happier customers who will continue to come back,” he added that “the toilet is a non-trade place that now suddenly takes additional customers.
At first they were hesitant to allow non-customers to their small rooms but inside Pandemic, this kind of certification helps build a kind of trust that wants to be established by the restaurant.
“The foundation of the toilet facilities is many steps for the class of cleanliness standards developed in connection with the toilet board coalition star rating system to ensure that this public toilet meets safety parameters, accessibility , Cleanliness, and quite equipped.
“The host must go through the screening process or improve the existing bathroom in accordance with the checklist of our cleanliness before they are certified, marked geographical and integrated in the Woloo mobile application,” explained Kelsikar.
Apart from adequate lighting, cross ventilation, nonslip floors, irregular and dry booths, cleaning staff training, waste management, and provision of basics such as soap, cleansers, trash cans, mirrors, and networks, it also uses smart sanitation technology – “The remote sensor smell” that breathes Malodour and warns maintenance staff.
“At any time the smell level crosses the threshold there is a trigger and if the toilet crosses three triggers, it’s delisted from the application.
Also, like the Michelin star officer, we have three Wolooo cleaners who visit the host toilet quietly twice a month and give Ranking.
That’s how we maintain Vigil, “Kelsikar added.
Startup also put ‘rest’ back to the toilet for women by preparing a powdered room – a room like a lounge at the metro and train station – equipped with a CCTV camera, a certified bathroom toilet board, baby napkin dispenser, baby dining room, diaper converter station, a cafe For fast breath and shops that sell women’s cleaning products.
“Powder space is intended to be an equalizer where every woman has access to clean and safe sanitation,” said Kelsikar when he prepared to launch their superior ‘powder’ space at Ghatkopar Metro Station on January 26, after Mumbai got the first powder room at Thane in 2019.
Mumbai: How does the application help women find the toilet
