Fifty new low-cost washing machines designed by a British university student are to be installed at an Iraq refugee camp this week. The hand-cranked machines designed by University of Bath’s Nav ...

Imagine washing clothes by hand for up to 20 hours each week. This is a reality for more than 5 billion people worldwide. In remote villages and settlements — many lacking electricity or running water ...

Hand washing clothes can be a really hard task but it's even harder in a place with little water or electricity - somewhere like a refugee camp. Fifty new low-cost hand cranked washing machines will ...

The inventor of a hand-cranked washing machine has travelled to Iraq to distribute the low-cost device to refugees. Navjot Sawhney created the Divya to allow those living in poverty to be able to wash ...

Hand-cranked washing machines for people in poorer countries are being built at a company in Northamptonshire. RS Group, based in Corby, is working with the Washing Machine Project, set up by an ...

While most Americans rely on washing machines to clean their clothes, that's not the case everywhere: Over half of the global population washes clothes by hand. It's a time-intensive and physically ...

An engineer who created a hand-cranked washing machine for people in poorer regions of the world has received an award from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Navjot Sawhney devised the machines after living ...

A British Sikh engineer behind an energy efficient manual washing machine for low-income groups around the world, inspired by his volunteering work in India, has won PM Rishi Sunak’s Points of Light ...

A British Sikh engineer behind an energy efficient manual washing machine for low-income groups around the world, inspired by his volunteering work in India, has won Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's ...

Navjot Sawhney designed energy-efficient manual washing machine for low-income communitie Navjot’s machines are also helping Ukrainian families who have been forced to flee their homes and are ...

"This idea was born out of a friendship. Nav, our founder, was on a sabbatical in rural South India, making clean cook stoves when he met his neighbour, Divya. It was through their conversations at ...