Why the Hy2U is made this way

Poverty is lack of resources, not lack of drive or intelligence. It is lack of opportunities to improve the quality of life.

Thus adding a new resource and offering a new opportunity to people living in poverty is one step into the right direction.

This is what the Hy2U-campaign for washing hands tries to do. How to inform people to whom it may matter is described in "Hy2U makes it possible". Here you find a summary of the ideas behind the device itself: the technology used in its design.

"Technology within Poverty" in its low-quality manifestation is how slum dwellings are constructed from cardboard and sticks and in its high quality manifestation in the beauty and refinement of many handycrafts and arts. Technology within Poverty has its origin in everybody's learning of the best way of making use of still existing opportunities and available materials. And not to forget information, the stories behind all that comes into being.

Appropriate Technology claims that a new story can be dreamed, developed and come into being as a realalistic option within Poverty. The "Hygiene to you"-device for washing hands is the story that is based on the dream that comfort can be offered, that niceness can be had and that, in its wake, hygiene can be promoted with the means that are available NOW and EVERYWHERE within poverty.

The stories and illustrations that are to be found in this website about the Hy2U prove beyond any doubt that indeed it is made possible, thanks to a new design, to provide washing hands to every home, school or clinic. The design is the story about where to pick up and then how to work that bit of wood,  plastic, cloth or rubber that can always be found along the road or in rubish. And then to get as result a device of a quality that reflects people's commitment to make use of this new opportunity.

As commitment depends on hope on achievement, this story about the Hy2U has to be told very well and also better and better all the time.