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 ...

Navjot Sawhney (right) devised the machine after living in India and seeing a neighbour struggling to do her washing Ten thousand people in low-income and displaced communities abroad will be given ...

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (WNDU) - On Monday morning, the Whirlpool Foundation and The Washing Machine Project announced they have partnered together to take on what they’re calling the “global washing ...

Ten thousand people in low-income and displaced communities abroad will be given manually operated washing machines, designed by a former student at the University of Bath. The aim is to help reduce ...

In March 2024, Whirlpool Foundation President Pam Klyn traveled from Benton Harbor, Mich., to Puducherry, India, with a small Whirlpool Corporation team. They were there to take an important step in ...

The Washing Machine Project, supported by the Whirlpool Foundation, is getting many helping hands for their manual washing machines. Last week 70+ Whirlpool Employee volunteers, The Washing Machine ...

In our world of hyper-sophisticated technology, it can be easy to take for granted the impact that domestic electrical appliances have had on our economic and social landscape, says Nav Sawhney, ...

BENTON HARBOR, Mich., April 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Whirlpool Foundation and The Washing Machine Project won the gold award for Best Employee Engagement Initiative at the 2025 Engage for Good Halo ...

Whirlpool Foundation and The Washing Machine Project’s winning employee engagement program exposed Whirlpool Corp. employees to the global washing divide and created an opportunity to help address it.