In March 2024, Whirlpool Foundation President Pam Klyn traveled from Benton Harbor, Mich., to Puducherry, India, with a small Whirlpool Corporation team. They were there to take an important step in ...

An engineer who created a washing machine for people in refugee camps and poorer regions of the world is ready to expand his project. Navjot Sawhney invented a hand-cranked washing machine for people ...

There’s great potential in salvaging a motor from a broken appliance, but so often the part in question is very specific to its application, presenting a puzzle of wires to the experimenter. This was ...

Leading manufacturer of high-quality machine components, Elesa, has partnered with The Washing Machine Project (TMWP) to create a washing machine suitables for people living in low-income and ...

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (WNDU) - On Monday morning, the Whirlpool Foundation and The Washing Machine Project announced they have partnered together to take on what they’re calling the “global washing ...

Imagine washing clothes by hand for up to 20 hours each week. This is a reality for more than 5 billion people worldwide. In remote villages and settlements — many lacking electricity or running water ...

Ten thousand people in low-income and displaced communities abroad will be given manually operated washing machines, designed by a former student at the University of Bath. The aim is to help reduce ...

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / October 2, 2024 / Whirlpool Corporation: Earlier this year, The Washing Machine Project, a grassroots organization that provides off-grid manual washing machines to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Co-Founder, Conspiracy of Love, and Good is the New Cool. For millions around the world, washing clothes is a physically demanding ...

A Global Problem: The research suggests that up to 50% of the world's population, around 4 billion people, rely on washing clothes by hand. This burden is most concentrated in low and middle income ...

Engineering students at the University of Bristol are refining a hand-spun washing machine that could change the lives of millions of people around the world. The $35 poverty-busting product from ...