We’re a dedicated team with diverse
backgrounds but one shared vision for
healthier, more prosperous cities.
Diana Salano
Alex Manyasi
Susan Gathigia
Titus Kuria
Carolyne Musyoka
James Nguyo
Wali mwalugongo
Joseph Githinji
Tim Egan
Daniel Chege
Louise Couder
Steve Kanyi
Sheila Kibuthu
Michael Maobe
Robin Farnworth
Ruthie Rosenberg
Eric Machango
MITCHELL OGUNA
David Auerbach
Lindsay Stradley
Ani Vallabhaneni
In 2009 at MIT, David Auerbach, Lindsay Stradley, and Ani Vallabhaneni were tasked with developing a
solution to a poverty challenge facing 1 billion people or
more around the world.
Harnessing their experiences working in the developing
world and in growing cities, they developed a full
value chain approach to addressing the sanitation crisis, offering a sustainable solution for urban slums.
With that project, Sanergy was born.
On November 19, 2011 – World Toilet Day – Sanergy opened the first Fresh Life
Toilet in Mukuru Kwa Njenga slum. Sanergy is comprised of a dedicated team with
diverse backgrounds, but one shared vision for urban slums. Today, we have over
250 employees, 60% of whom live in the communities we serve.
SANERGY IS SUPPORTED BY AN INCREDIBLE TEAM OF MENTORS
We work closely with government officials at the local, county, and national levels advocating for a supportive
policy environment for alternative safe sanitation solutions and models for deriving value from waste.
Our philanthropic partners support our work at the front-end of the value chain to develop and deploy
sanitation service delivery models for everyone, forever. This continuous innovation and expansion develops models that
municipalities can replicate affordably – thereby delivering services sustainably and reducing the cost to donors and the public sector.
At the back end of the value chain, our partners and investors support our efforts to
efficiently collect and convert waste into high-value end-products. This work requires the development of infrastructure
and logistics that are capital intensive and, given the well-established agricultural inputs markets,
can yield a financial return for investors.
FOR BOTH SANITATION AND WASTE MANAGEMENT EXPERTISES,
WE ARE SUPPORTED BY FANTASTIC BOARD MEMBERS
SANITATION – SANERGY 501(C)3 BOARD
Louis Boorstin (Board Chair), Managing Director, Osprey Foundation.
Bart Burstein, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Pace Able Foundation.
Pascale Guiffant, Founder at Vetea, Innovation and Positive Impact Consulting.
Adam Knapp, Finance Professional.
Neil MacLeod, Consultant and retired Head of Water & Sanitation at eThekwini Water & Sanitation.
Kariuki Mugo, Kenya Country Program Manager at Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP)
Tobias Omufwoko, Senior Policy Advisor, African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW)
Madhur (Muddy) Ramrakha, Director, iJenga, & Co-Founder, Kenya Green Building Society.
Lindsay Stradley, Co-Founder, Sanergy.
WASTE MANAGEMENT / REUSE – SANERGY C-CORP BOARD
David Auerbach, Co-Founder, Sanergy.
Anne Amanda Bangasser, Managing Director, Treehouse Investments.
Steve Beck, Co-Founder, Novastar Ventures.
Adam Litle, Senior VP, Revenue at Granular.
Ani Vallabhaneni, Co-Founder, Sanergy.
Africa’s urban informal settlements demand
new, bold solutions. We need your help to
turn ideas into lasting impact.
Awards
- Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) Innovator of the Year
- MIT100K Business Plan Winner
- La France S’Engage Au Sud Social Innovation Award
- USAID Frontiers in Development
- Fonds Suez Environnement Initiatives – Institut de France Prize
- Nestle Creating Shared Value Prize (Runner-up)
- Legatum Center at MIT
- Rainer Arnhold / Mulago Foundation
- Ashoka
- Echoing Green
- Draper Richards Kaplan Fellow
- African Leadership Network
- FT/IFC Transformational Business Awards – Award in Urban Transformation
- Sarphati Sanitation Award
Media Features
ABOUT US
Sanergy builds healthy, prosperous communities by making sanitation safe and affordable for residents of informal settlements. Sanergy conducts its operations in Kenya. There are two companies associated with Sanergy: a 501(c)3 registered in Massachusetts and a C-Corp registered in Delaware. Both companies have wholly-owned subsidiaries in Kenya.
OUR POLICY ON DATA
Sanergy collects your first and last name, email address, and organization. With this information, we do the following:
- Send regular emails with updates on our progress
- Share relevant articles and links by third parties about the WASH sector, the ag. sector, urban planning, social enterprise, and Sanergy
- Solicit your support through donations and “spread-the-word” campaigns on social media
- Make you aware of opportunities to liaise with Sanergy, such as jobs and meet-ups
- Share your data with trusted 3rd parties, who are vendors to the company. For example, we utilize Mailchimp, a GDPR compliant software company, for running e-mail campaigns, and WordPress who hosts our website, whose core software is GDPR compliant.
HOW WE HANDLE YOUR DATA
- Sanergy does not sell your data to 3rd parties.
- The e-mails we send to you contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Please consult all third party sites’ privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, third parties.
- Sanergy stores your data through Mailchimp, a GDPR compliant software company.
- Sanergy keeps your data in perpetuity.
- You have the right to unsubscribe at any time to our mailing lists.
If you have a complaint, you may send it to info@saner.gy and we will aim to respond within 7 days.
*”Without prejudice to your rights under all applicable law, the above and our privacy statement are not contractual.” *
Last Update: December 2018