{"id":1440,"date":"2017-05-23T15:51:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T15:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enpress.com\/site\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2018-04-27T20:52:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T20:52:23","slug":"student-water-filter-solution-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enpress.com\/site\/student-water-filter-solution-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Creates Water Filter Business to Help Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2017\/05\/kathy-ku-spouts-uganda-water-filters-chasing-genius\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A recent article from <em>National Geographic<\/em><\/a> profiles Kathy&#8217;s story.\u00a0As a Harvard student, she spent a year teaching in Uganda at the young age 19. It was there she experienced the problems of impure water that made her and her host family sick several times.<\/p>\n<p>That experience inspired her to devise a better, more accessible way for people in Uganda to filter their water. Her solution involved first designing a ceramic water filter, and then finding a way\u00a0to manufacture the filters in Uganda. Keep in mind, she did all this without any business experience, learning as she went.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the results of Kathy and her team&#8217;s work are apparent. According to the\u00a0<em>National Geographic\u00a0<\/em>story: &#8220;Ku and co-founder John Kye have a full-fledged water filter factory near Kampala. 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