Pit Vidura serves last-mile urban households with much needed waste-collection solutions and produces high-quality, evidence-based research to continually improve our process and make our services more accessible for the poorest of the poor. We are a live-lab and develop our novel approach to sanitation service delivery in collaboration with our own communities.
Our Progress
>6,000
Customer’s served with basic sanitation services
> 50 M
Liters of fecal waste removed from the environment
The Problem
Sewers are not feasible for rapidly urbanizing areas. Instead, people use septic tanks and pit latrines which fill fast and are emptied unhygienically by marginalized workers. Pit Vidura is a solution to cleaning up rapidly growing cities and empowering communities with waste management solutions that are safe for workers, communities, and the environment.
Our Solution
Service Delivery
Pit Vidura provides affordable services that are accessible for families even in the densest and most inaccessible urban areas.
Research
Pit Vidura develops solutions to sanitation service delivery problems by serving household clients, generating valuable insights, and democratizing our data and learnings.
Engineering
Social Marketing
Finance
Public Health
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100% local leadership
“Pit Vidura introduced a pit latrine emptying service that uses pump lines that extend more than 200 yards to reach homes separated by alleyways too narrow for a regular-sized truck to pass through.”
“I used to empty pits manually--dig holes and empty waste using buckets. It was challenging because we used bare hands and would be in danger of falling into the pit. Now in Pit VIdura we have PPEs and have a machine and a truck. Before I could only earn a little bit of money once or twice a week. Now I have steady income.”
- Baptiste Munyanziza
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