The Burkinabees Moctar Dembélé and the Burundian Gérard Niyondiko two students in Burkina Faso have just been rewarded for their work by the University of Berkeley in California during the Global Social Venture Competition.
After research at the International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering in Ouagadougou, the two students developed this revolutionary soap. Composed from local ingredients, such as lemongrass and shea butter (they do not want to reveal the complete list of components) the soap has the special feature of repelling mosquitoes and killing larvae, thus preventing the proliferation of plasmodium. This parasite, carried by mosquitoes, is the cause of malaria in humans.
