Washing Machine – African Style

Do you have a Washing Machine?

Well, if you have access to the internet, you probably have access to one.

But most of the world doesn’t.  These women have to dig a hole in a river bed to access groundwater to try and wash their clothes with whatever cleaning product they can lay their hands on.

A Washing Machine is something these women will never see in their life times.  If they ever saw a Washing Machine, it might look like some alien creature that’s come to invade this isolated part of Africa.

The revolution of the washing machine as described in this book, Unleashing Innovation: How Whirlpool Transformed an Industry, hasn’t occurred in Africa.

If you have a Washing Machine, you’re lucky!

So if you ever bitch and moan about having to do the washing because you don’t like doing it, think of these women in eastern Zambia, Southern Africa.

It’s not that hard to throw your clothes into a Washing Machine and add a bit of powder.

It might just put things into perspective.