Dignified Mobile Toilets (DMT) is Nigeria’s first mobile toilet manufacturing and distribution business headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. Judging from its sustained success, the company’s motto “shit business is serious business” is no joke.
DMT began in 2002 when the company’s founder, Mr. Isaac Durojaiye, decided he would systematically tackle the health burden of diarrheal disease (the second leading cause of childhood mortality in Nigeria) by increasing public access to clean toilets in Africa’s biggest city: Lagos, Nigeria.
DMT locally manufactures portable toilets and then rents them to unemployed street youth who are then entitled to charge a small fee to other community members for using DMT toilets. The partnership between DMT and street youth allows DMT to delegate the basic upkeep of their facilities to invested community stakeholders and offers unemployed street adults a steady, legal source of income.
DMT also runs the Decent Toilets for Schools initiative that aims to provide free hiqh-quality portable toilets to underfunded public schools.So far, DMT has donated toilets to more than 35 schools in Lagos states via its Decent Toilets for Schools initiative.
Since 2003, DMT has manufactured more than 1500 toilets. According to Reuters International, DMT has become the second the largest toilet manufacturing company in Africa. It looks like “shit business”, indeed, is serious business.
Picture Source: Akinpelu Dada The Punch, 22 Dec 2008
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