Shraddha Pandey

Abstract Action Inspirational

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Shraddha Pandey

Abstract Action Inspirational

W.O.W Made Me Feel Wow

W.O.W Made Me Feel Wow

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 Whilst wells in rural India are now more accessible than they were 20 years ago, it is still not unusual to see women carrying water in a metal pail balanced on their heads.

Children, too, are tasked with walking in heat of up to 40 °C to fetch water in this way – sometimes they are as young as seven years old.

These typical water-carrying methods, however, bring with them physical loading that has the potential to cause injury, lead to musculoskeletal disorders, such as neck or back pain, and risk disability.

 Cynthia and her team had already designed the Water Wheel which has been vetted through a series of design validation pilots that took place across India over the course of 2 years. Her team lived and worked in dozens of villages, carried hundreds of liters of water, and engaged with thousands of potential end-users and sector experts.


Cynthia is a firm believer in the potential for business to alleviate poverty. Her career has focused on incubating mission-based businesses designed to alleviate poverty in the developing world. She has helped launch ventures of all shapes and sizes, ranging from community-run ecotourism businesses in Mexico and Guatemala to a national strategy for sustainable

Cynthia is giving her best to make the lives of rural people easy with the help of rolling wheels.

Instead of carrying a heavily weighted water bucket, a person just needs to roll the wheel to carry water at home from the well. This is the basic concept behind what Cynthia is delivering to rural Indians.


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