Night Loo provides safe portable toilet for women in refugee camps

American designer Anna Meddaugh has designed a personal urinal that women in refugee camps can use in their shelters at night to avoid the threat of sexual violence outside.
Meddaugh was named runner up in the US James Dyson Award for her prototype, Night Loo, a portable and reusable toilet box with polymer beads that soak up liquid and odours.
In the light and relative safety of day, users dispose of the contents in the public toilet.
Meddaugh created Night Loo to provide a safe option for women and girls in refugee camps, who have reported feeling too scared to use the provided toilets at night.
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[@mariad4183]

My dear, you have saved MANY lives with this! On behalf of the rest of humanity, thank you

[@myrootsgraspNewsoil]

Thank you for being such a wonderful human being and for using your beautiful mind to both protect and help these women. ❤️

[@大艺术家胖老王]

Amazing!!!! I can't even tell how much I was touched by this project. Thanks for you efforts and brilliant idea.

[@snewcomer22]

You can buy 10gal of instant snow for $15 we’ve used it in our makeshift toilet for camping for years.

[@mariad4183]

WOW! tyfs this tip

[@smoking566]

She’s made this and USA just set women independents space back a thousand years

[@dysonsquared]

Cheap and scalable and brilliant.

[@georgehernandez5089]

Brava!

[@JoseCarlosSilva-rp7lp]

Fantastic Person and Designer. Thank you so much for your precious help.

[@mehediamin3552]

Unfortunate that someone invested this much time and effort in something is totally unaware of the socioeconomic context . No refugee can actually afford high-absorbent polymers and injection molded silicon pouches. It's not even a priority. they'd rather pee in a bottle or a pot like they often have to on a daily basis.

[@AtheistEve]

Mehedi Amin I think her idea is specifically aimed at refugee camps that would distribute these freely. Obviously for women and young people in parts of the world who have to use communal latrines, they would be better off using a standard potty with a lid that can be slopped out and washed every morning. TBH, I don’t really see why a potty with a lid can’t be used in a refugee camp. I suspect that this product would help reduce smell and infection. But I have a concern about using unnatural materials (plastics) that might not biodegrade.

[@syrusthevirus6540]

Good for you. Now are you going to patent and sell your idea to the highest bidder or the UN ? Whichever comes knocking first. Because you know the UN has money to waste right ? Or is this contraption free to have if you can find someone to manufacture it for free ?

[@JMichellesSpot]

Love your idea and design.