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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, The Washing Machine Project, a grassroots organization that provides off-grid manual washing machines to people in low-income and displaced communities, announced it is ...

Benton Harbor-based Whirlpool Foundation has partnered with international grassroots organization, The Washing Machine Project, to deliver washing machines to people in low-income and displaced ...

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / October 14, 2025 / The Washing Machine Project, a mission-driven organization tackling the hidden burden of laundry on communities, recently published its first ...

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 ...

There’s great potential in salvaging a motor from a broken appliance, but so often the part in question is very specific to its application, presenting a puzzle of wires to the experimenter. This was ...

Most of us don’t think about the cultural context of our washing machines–we just toss in clothes, turn on the device, and don’t ponder it further. But the reality is that the majority of people on ...

Higher motor efficiency is a Good Thing – It’s unlikely that any design engineer ever said, “Gee, if only I could find a really inefficient motor for my next design.” When I was working on an article ...