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EarthEnable is a construction platform that provides training for local masons to craft durable earthen floors. Traveling to Rwanda with the Stanford class “Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability” in 2013, four Stanford students were tasked with their partner organization – The Mass Design Group – to design a product or a service that would make homes or communities healthier. They first sought to understand how sub-optimal homes affected physical and emotional health outcomes and were shocked to discover the significant health problems that dirt floors cause. Eliminating a dirt floor from the home results in dramatic reductions in childhood asthma, diarrhea, malnutrition, and parasitic infestations.