Proposição da implantação de lavatórios móveis voltados para a população em situação de rua: análise de viabilidade

Abstract

Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians are on the streets. One of the biggest problems for those who are in this condition is the low access to basic hygiene, indispensable to a healthy life. The present study aims to collaborate to minimize part of this problem with the proposal of a product, the Mobile Washbasin. The product is a mobile sink that can be installed in public places, and that allows hand hygiene with liquid soap and gel alcohol, with water activation by means of pedals. The objective proposed here is to analyze the feasibility of implementing the aforementioned lavatory in the city of Fortaleza. To this end, the study first defined a lavatory prototype to perform the feasibility analysis, this prototype being adapted from the model idealized by the “Mó Limpeza” project. It was then carried out the construction of a business model capable of enabling the implementation and continuity of the Mobile Lavatory project, using the concept of social entrepreneurship. Then, the study presents the places that can enable the implantation of the lavatory product in the city, by surveying the regions with the highest concentration of people living on the streets and their distances to some of the hygiene resources available in the city. The intention was to define the places capable of stimulating the practice of hygiene. The study ends with an analysis of the feasibility of the costs involved in the construction of the product. The study concludes that the Mobile Lavatory, in addition to contributing to the dissemination of hygiene practices and enabling improvements in the quality of life, has a viable implementation.