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LooCafe Minis

When I began the Toilet Tales by LooCafe project, our work was simple, highlighting the stories of ex-street hawkers who’ve taken up LooCafe models to become entprenureunuers owning fixed small businesses.

LooCafe Minis have created social impact that has helped them win the **“Best Engagement by Social Enterprise in Sanitation Model”** and have become one of the most widespread public toilet models in Hyderabad. If you’re an outoger in the city, you must’ve seen a lid cap box with two toilets attached like this:

<aside> 💡 Featuring on the right, A LooCafe Mini owner who was the winner of the grand Clean (Swacchta) Toilet Competition in Hyderabad in collaboration with the GHMC.

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Social Impact 🤝 LooCafe Minis

These models are small, versatile and created a on a BOP model that is prefabricated. Due to their size and versatility, the manufacturing cost is reduced by over 40%, or more and helps us install more such units.

• LooCafe Mini owners can be any kind of entrepreneurs, featured on the left is Ali (also featured in Toilet Tales) who owns a bike repair shop in his shop floor space, the Cafe doesn’t matter - it’s just space in a unit that is installed on a footpath.

LooCafe Minis were created on the basis of a simple inspiration. “Porta Potties”

I’ve seen Doctor Who and Superman centered around one of these, why not toilets - Vedanth

Being in the WASH industry, our fundamental mission has been simple, create more such sustainable LooCafe models, because that’s how Open Defecation or the toilet problem as a whole can be solved.

LooCafe Minis are simple.

Two Porta Potties with a little “Pan-Shop” in the middle.

In non-Indian terms, a simple urban street vending stand with two toilets attached.

• Primary sustainability is a modest partnership fee (5X lesser than what they had to pay as ‘hafta’ and debt in their previous methods of business).
• Further sustainability (i.e, revenue for toilets) comes from the advertisement panels attached on the top.

→ Here’s what it looks on the outside, IRL after 6 months+ installation 👀

Although this might seem like a crowded image with an uncanny footpath, let me show you how an alternative would look like (From TOI)

And this is near Hyderabad’s most popular attraction; the Charminar. Here’s US near Charminar.

Pictures!

A featured example of using the LooCafe Minis! Dr. Rabinder Nath Foundation that has used 2 LooCafe Minis so far for great work.

Now this Notion document doesn’t do justice to the work we’ve done after being created in less than 15 minutes while I wait for my flight back home, I should’ve been done 15 minutes ago as per the picture—haha

BUT despite my time constraint, I can’t drop off without telling you than we’ve got around 450+ LooCafes at present and minis comprise a ballpark number of around 270 of them, to think it started from porta potties would make for a great video… wonder in how many minutes I’d leave that incomplete in.