Our Vision
XOPIs used everywhere around the world
Why Xopi?
Handwashing with soap is critical to ensure that healthcare staff provide quality care, reduce the spread of infections, and protect the health of communities, that school children are protected against germs, viruses and parasites, that people in markets, at home or in the work place do not get sick.
The most common and affordable form of soap available in local markets in developing countries is solid soap. Bars of soap are sold almost everywhere, …so what’s the problem?
Where soap is provided in public places, it is very often misused, dropped on a dirty/wet floor or in a drain, misplaced or taken for personal use or eaten by goats and rodents, resulting of soap not being available when needed.
We developed a soap grating dispenser that keeps a bar of soap safely stored in a container, allowing efficient release of soap flakes, preventing easy removal of the bar of soap, away from hungry animals, keeping the soap dry and clean. We tested and perfected the XOPI for over 2 years and rolled out in several countries.
How do we achieve our goal?
XS aims to operate as a socially responsible business (SRB)
We seek to leverage business for a more sustainable world, by working with partners with similar visions and by producing a durable product, with highest impact in its use and lowest possible environmental impact, targeting developing countries with the greatest need. We aim to maximise turnover in order to invest and subsidise our products for beneficiaries in developing countries, who are not directly supported by international aid agencies in the financing or purchase of XOPIs.
We achieve this by:
I – Manufacturing a durable product, that can be sustained even in most isolated areas.
- The XOPI, by nature of its design, produces little waste in its use in comparison to other type of soap dispensers, is very cheap in the use of soap.
- We work with partners that maximise socially responsible production, creating employment.
II – Maximizing impact in countries most needed
- We seek partnership with international organisations in the financing and distribution of the XOPIs and to reduce overheads in distribution and roll out of Sanitation and Hygiene programmes
- We work through country representatives with socially responsible principles
- Prices for International NGO’s and for government agencies are minimized to the greatest extend possible.
- In developing countries we target schools, health centres, markets and places of work to reach greatest impact in hygiene improvement
III – Generate a fund through sale in Europe;
- We make the XOPI available for the European market with an extra margin in the selling price that goes straight into a separate fund to finance XOPIs for developing countries.
- The fund will be audited in order to ascertain no profit is made on these funds
- In the future the fund may receive donations in order to increase its use and impact in developing countries
- In Europe we target public and private organisations, local government and public facilities; every organisation that wishes to contribute to the environment and help to realise improved hygiene and health for their own customers or clients and by doing so, helping people in developing countries.
IV – Roll out production to regional centres to reduce transport carbon footprint and create employment
- We aim to optimise the technology and transfer our knowledge to manufacturers in developing countries, so that XOPIs can be made in the region
