Coordinated TECHO headquarters in Chile, students from Designmatters, and international conglomerates Unilever and Procter&Gamble with community leaders from marginalized communities to develop products tailor-made for people living in poverty.
My role was to help community leaders prioritize their needs, work with designers to construct creative solutions, and then to fit these designs into the profit goals of our corporate contributors. Our work created new jobs in the community, moved forward design thinking for an underserved population, and generated enough revenue to be self sustainable.
For more information on the safe water projects Designmatters came up with, go here: http://www.designmattersatartcenter.org/proj/safe-agua/
