Mobile Car Wash Push Carts for Africa to Provide Jobs

Many people in Africa would like to start a businesscar-wash routes and work in a zone defense
and it is hard to find a business that is easy to do andpattern.One business person could buy all the carts
does not cost much to start. I propose that we makeand rent them out to individuals, as independent
possible very low cost mobile wash push-carts thatcontractors and store the car wash push carts at their
could be used to clean automobiles and also used forbuilding or yard at night then stock them with fuel,
cleaning. The wash-carts could be built with a plasticwater and supplies each day. Or individuals could
water tank, which help 50-60 gallons of water andpurchase them and run their own businesses. Either
have a very inexpensive pressure washer on it thatway this would be a good business and improve the
was durable and needed little if any maintenance toquality of life in the city for many people and that
work. The pressure washer would run off very lowwould be a very positive thing indeed.By providing
batter power source.The battery could be charged bymobile type service businesses more people who are
solar panels, which would be part of the top of thewilling to work hard could in fact get off the streets
push-cart. Other units for the city could be made to runand therefore also employ people to help them wash
off fuel and have very small low power generators.the cars and perhaps this could provide 3-jobs per
By keeping the cost down very low the return onmobile wash cart. I have been in the mobile car wash
investment would be doable and micro-loans could bebusiness for 27 years and have designed such a unit
made to start the commerce going. Training could alsoand believe these should be built in Africa to also
be done very easily and up to 20 of these carts couldprovide jobs and then the entire project would be
be put in each major city to be pushed around onself-sustaining. Consider all this in 2006.