{"469861":{"#nid":"469861","#data":{"type":"news","title":"How a Toilet Changed Our Alumna\u2019s Life.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJasmine Burton has amassed a large number of frequent flyer miles since being a part of the 2014 InVenture Prize-winning team. Her new, jetset lifestyle is all thanks to the safichoo toilet \u2013 she travels the world promoting the team\u2019s design that addresses WASH (water, sanitation, hygiene) related diseases in developing countries. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe toilet inspired her start-up company, Wish for WASH, LLC. Through Wish for WASH, Burton \u201cseeks to bring innovation to sanitation,\u201d by developing toilet systems that solve specific problems related to cultural contexts, sustainability, distribution and funding.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the summer of 2014, she and her team participated in a multi-agency pilot to assess toilet designs in a refugee camp in northern Kenya.\u0026nbsp; In 2016, they plan to launch a beta pilot in Lusaka, Zambia which is where Jasmine is currently living as a Global Health Corps fellow.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETogether with her entrepreneurial interest in sanitation projects, her overarching motivation as a designer is to make a lasting, humanitarian impact on improving the world. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn a world suffering from extreme poverty, malnutrition, violence, and inequity,\u201d Jasmine said, \u201cwe need more doers, creators, and makers working in this space in tandem with the policy makers, international development officers, and business professionals to create holistic and interdisciplinary solution to more effectively make sustainable changes.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead more about her journey in a recent article in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jasmine-burton\/stem-in-the-social-sector_b_8390194.html?\u0022\u003EHuffington Post\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe is currently raising money for the Zambia project through her Wish for WASH (W4W) campaign on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/wish-for-wash-toilet-testing-in-Zambia\u0022\u003EINDIEGOGO\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jasmine Burton has amassed a large number of frequent flyer miles since being a part of the 2014 InVenture Prize-winning team."}],"uid":"27957","created_gmt":"2015-11-15 20:07:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:58","author":"Ieva Mikolaviciute","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-11-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-11-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"469871":{"id":"469871","type":"image","title":"Jasmine Burton - Inventure","body":null,"created":"1449257160","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:26:00","changed":"1475895218","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:38","alt":"Jasmine Burton - Inventure","file":{"fid":"203869","name":"inventure_edited1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/inventure_edited1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/inventure_edited1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":464388,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/inventure_edited1_0.jpg?itok=wPx13qdc"}}},"media_ids":["469871"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jasmine-burton\/stem-in-the-social-sector_b_8390194.html","title":"Huffington Post feature"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/wish-for-wash-toilet-testing-in-Zambia","title":"Indiegogo campaign"}],"groups":[{"id":"1225","name":"School of Industrial Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}