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Seeking IMPACT VCs; Founder JALODBUST-Sanitation by Digi-mech. for Urban, UGD, Slum & Rural sanitation; AWARDEE: ASMEiSHOW 2020, USA; BIRAC-BIG-17; CiTe-2021(NDMC-IITK); BioSmart-2020; ISC-FICCI-(2020); Top10-Swachhata
Can a Rose smell less sweet if called by any other name? So better call a Rose by its name. Avoiding the word #Manual_Scavenging does not lessen the burden of the wet-sanitation worker, who nonetheless has to come in contact with the fecal waste of others in #UGD_manholes, #Septic_Tanks, #Toilet_leachpits, #Urban_slums and #Rural_Sanitation. And it's damaging the possibility of resolution when the entire ecosystem capable of resolving it, instead decides to whitewash and hide the problem. We must understand that Manual Scavenging is a single name to combination of all the problems a society can have. I visualise the resolution of the problem of Manual Scavenging like holding all the legs of the Octopus all at one time. Hence the solution can't come from organizational and ideological silos, depending entirely on the existing systems or existing methods or perhaps from existing structures. The stakeholders in their present form and Manual Scavenger Deaths and Deprivation have co-existed and don't look like converging. JALODBUST through its Techno-economic interventions SANI-PRENEUR and vCUSP in collaboration with the existing structures, brings in the resolutions to the host of causes of #Manual_Scavenging in a single stroke e.g #Livelihoods #Social_Justice #Mechanized_Sanitation #Digital_Governance #Rural_Sanitation #Slum_Sanitation #Smart_Cities #Circular_Economy #Food_Security #NonSewered_Sanitation #Environment_Protection Collaborations and Suggestions are welcome Russell deLucia Manoj Kumar Pratim Raha Srinivas Chary Vedala Ramakrishna NK Harish Hande Stephen McAvene Karishma Vohra Rajan Kapur Hardeep Singh Puri @Dr Virendra Kumar Urban Management - ASCI Social Alpha Villgro Small Scale Sustainable Infrastructure Development Fund (S3IDF) ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers) ISC-India Sanitation Coalition