Clean Water for Neighbors by Neighbors - leveraging donations to launch a clean water enterprise

NEW YORK - June 13, 2014 - PRLog -- The Archimedes Project turns to crowdfunding to support the launch of a clean water social enterprise in Haiti this month.

The Archimedes Project is excited to announce the impending launch of Community Chlorinators, a clean water social enterprise that aims to end cholera in Haiti. This initiative recruits, trains and manages Haitian entrepreneurs to work in their own communities to sell chlorine tablets and teach the importance of using clean water in the home.

To support this initiative, the Archimedes Project has launched its first Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fund-a-social-enterprise-to-stop-cholera. The campaign continues through mid-June and has a goal of $5,000, which will be used to cover the costs of training the Haitian hub staff and entrepreneurs, conduct local marketing and outreach, and cover other early programmatic expenses.


The Indiegogo campaign will provide vital funding for Community Chlorinators, which launches in June. Since the 2010 earthquake, cholera has killed almost 8,500 and infected hundreds of thousands more in Haiti. International humanitarian groups have tried but failed to end the many problems Haiti faces – including access to clean water. The Archimedes Project has created Community Chlorinators to bring an effective and scalable solution to help Haitians access clean water using their spirit of entrepreneurship and their existing networks. Community Chlorinators is a unique proposition, in that it relies on existing theory and technology, but applies it in a way that will solve a complex humanitarian issue.

More about the Archimedes Project:

Archimedes is the Greek mathematician who first described how leverage works. He believed that one man can move the world given a long enough lever and a firm point on which to place it. The Archimedes Project believes that existing technology and knowledge can be leveraged to solve the developing world's most intractable problems.

Community Chlorinators uses a proven model of local entrepreneurship, strategic partnerships and affordable purification technology to provide clean water to communities in Haiti. By recruiting and training local entrepreneurs to sell chlorine to friends and neighbors, Community Chlorinators (or “Kouzin Dlo” in Haitian Creole) will use existing social networks to help end Haiti’s cholera crisis.

To learn more, visit http://www.archimedesproject.com and follow the Archimedes Project on Facebook/ Twitter: http://www.facebook.com/archgrp http://twitter.com/ArchGrp