EXCLUSIVE WOMEN LOUNGE WOLOO POWDER ROOM NOW OPEN AT GHATKOPAR METRO STATION;
EXCLUSIVE WOMEN LOUNGE WOLOO POWDER ROOM NOW OPEN AT GHATKOPAR METRO STATION; WOMEN COMMUTER NOW DON’T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THEIR TOILET WOOS #WolooHaiNa
- Over 41% of train commuters in Mumbai are women who now have access to clean hygienic toilets and exclusive café cum store – Woloo Powder Room lounge, at the Ghatkopar Metro Station.
- Woloo Powder Room at Ghatkopar Metro Station is the first of its kind exclusive lounge for women that offers smart hygienic, clean, and safe toilets, a sanitary napkin dispenser, a Café and a retail area for women centric hygiene & wellness products.
- Woloo Powder Room is a collaborative effort of Woloo and Mumbai Metro One along with Toilet Board Coalition, IAPMO and IWSH, among others.
Mumbai, January 30, 2022: In a first-of-its kind in the country, Woloo Powder Room Lounge – an exclusive lou nge for women, was inaugurated at the mezzanine floor of the Ghatkopar Metro station by Railway Police Com missioner Shri Quaiser Khalid on Sunday, January 30, 2022. The occasion was also marked with IAPMO in asso ciation with IWSH donating free subscription of the Woloo Powder Room & Woloo App (helps you locate hygi enic & safe washrooms in Mumbai) to Women Railway Police Force in Mumbai.
The Woloo Powder Room Lounge at Ghatkopar Metro Station is India’s first 1,000 sq.ft size exclusive lounge for women and the first of the only chain of Powder-Rooms for women of all ages & diversity, catering to their hygie ne dignity. Equipped with Wi-Fi, centrally air-conditioned facilities, 8 smart hygienic, clean, and safe toilets for w omen, a sanitary napkin dispenser, facility to change baby diapers, facial recognition software for enhanced se curity, a 14-seater Café for a quick breather or a bonding session with the besties, and a retail area for women centric hygiene & wellness products, the lounge creates a world-class experience.
Speaking at the launch Manish Kelshikar, Co-founder, Woloo, expressed, “Women make 41% of the commuters and still there is a lack of sanitised washroom facilities for them. As a step towards addressing this issue, Mumbai Metro One has joined hands with Woloo to provide Powder Room Lounge to its women consumers at Ghatkopar Metro station. The lounge provides a comfortable stop over to the women commuters to take a refreshing break and cater to their personal hygiene needs. We are looking forward to collaborate with more women entrepreneurs to open more such powder rooms across the country.”
Speaking about the need of a women’s exclusive lounge at the Metro Station, an official of Mumbai Metro One, said, “We are committed to providing superior customer service and the best-in-class experience to our commuters. By introducing the Woloo Powder Room Lounge, we will be able to provide a comfortable stop over for our women commut ers of all ages. Woloo Powder Room Lounge is not just a hygienic place for women of all ages for their personal sanitizat ion, but it also houses a Café and a retail store for women centric products.”
Dr. Nimish Shah, Managing Director, IAPMO India, said, “For wo men, lack of access to improved sanitation, es pecially out-of-ho me, has remained a difficult problem to solve, leading to immense anxiety on one hand and an increasing incidence of infectious dis eases on the other. There are hardly any sustainable models that have suc cessfully solved this problem. Woloo is a promising Wo men’s hygiene and sanitation access platform that is tak ing this challenge head-on. IWSH & IAPMO are proud to partner with Wo loo in its mission to provide safe, clean, and hygienic sanitation access for women.”
Dr. Nimish Shah further added, “Through IWSH, we are enabling 1000 Mumbai Railway Policewomen to access impr oved sanitation out-of-home. IAPMO believes that quality, certified hardware, underpin durable and lasting improved sanitation. Thanks to our donors, Ashirwad Pipes, Cera and AO Smith, the Woloo Powder Room is a perfect venue for well-designed and hygienic public toilets for women!”
Woloo Powder Room Lounge at Ghatkopar Metro Station is a collaborative effort of Woloo and Mumbai Metro One, along with Toilet Board Coalition, IWSH, IAPMO, AOSmith, Cera, Jet Synthesys and Ashirvad Pipes among others.
About Woloo
With a vision to provide hygiene dignity, WOLOO is a tech enabled loo-discovery platform app that helps wom en to locate the nearest washroom within 2 Km radius, whenever they are away from their home or office. The Woloo App, currently available on Android and IOS devices, have over 1200 washrooms listed from Mumbai & Pune that are hosted by restaurants/cafes known as the Woloo Hosts. The hosts have to go through a screening process or upgrade their existing washroom according to Woloo’s hygiene checklist before they are certified, ge o-tagged and integrated on the Woloo app. These hosts are certified in association with the Toilet Board Coaliti on (A global non-profit enterprise working under World Bank to improve sanitation standard across 40+ countri es) and the Woloo Assurance of Hygiene (WAH) based on safety, hygiene, and accessibility parameters. Woloo Assurance of Hygiene (WAH) is the symbol of commitment to every Woloo customer to provide Safe, Hygienic & Accessible washrooms.
In addition to being a certified washrooms app for women. Woloo also caters to ‘Woloo Powder Rooms’, which are equipped with hygienic, clean, and safe toilets for women along with the facility to change baby diapers, a Café for a quick breather or a bonding session with the besties, and a store that sells women centric. More on www.woloo.in
About Mumbai Metro One Private Limited:
Mumbai Metro One Private Limited (MMOPL) is a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) created to develop, implement and operate Mumbai’s first Metro Line, on a public-private partnership (PPP) model. It is a consortium formed by Reliance Infrastructure Limited and MMRDA with 74% and 26% stake respectively. The 11.4 km long Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar corridor that provides connectivity between Western and Eastern Mumbai was awarded to MMOPL for the Concession period of 35 years. The corridor has 12 stations and has reduced the travelling time of Mumbaikars from 90 minutes to 21 minutes.
About IWSH (The International Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Foundation)
The IWSH Foundation exists to help develop and enhance the role of the plumbing industry in community colla borations and educational exchanges, all over the world.Since our creation in 2016, IWSH has assembled teams of the best and brightest skilled volunteers from across the globe, joining forces to tackle design and constructio n projects that improve access to water, sanitation and hygiene for a variety of communities in need. We conne ct with local leaders, governmental and nonprofit partners, labor organizations, and manufacturers.We do this because we believe that clean water and sanitation are fundamental human rights: they directly impact life, pr osperity, and opportunity. Plumbing is vital to global health!Today, IWSH oversees and supports a range of wat er, sanitation and hygiene initiatives via our international Community Plumbing Challenge program, and ongoing Plumbing Outreach projects.
