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Bringing clean water and healthcare to Haiti, post Hurricane Sandy

With the help of international aid organizations like DFiD, International Medical Corps in now using the medium of Mobile Medical Units which dispense clean water and healthcare consultations to the already underserved regions of Haiti badly affected by Hurricane Sandy. Read more here.

February 1, 2013

Urban water woes

Urbanization rate has only gone up, while water sources are depleting across the cities of most developing countries. Sanitation and hygiene options are shrinking in availability too. Most of these countries are also climate disasters prone, where citizens are most vulnerable to cholera following a flash flood. This post identifies […]

February 1, 2013

Relationship between Use of Water from Community – Scale Water Treatment Refill Kiosks and Childhood Diarrhoea

This experiment traces the risk of diarrhoea among children 1-4 years of age, in Jakarta, Indonesia’s slums. In most developing country slums, access to piped water is all communities have, safe water is unavailable – and purchasing bottled water is prohibitively expensive. In this case, drinking water from community-scale decentralized […]

February 1, 2013

Why toilets, not cell phones can facilitate education in the world

John Kluge, social entrepreneur, philanthro-‘punk’ and ‘toilet-hacker’, has taken on the issue of low awareness about the availability of toilets in the developing world, through his ‘Give a Sh*t Manifesto’. This post is a Q&A with the rich entrepreneur. Read more here.

February 1, 2013

Nigeria: Central Bank renews commitment to aggressive financial inclusion agenda

According to the Central Bank of Nigeria, this year it will devise a strategy to financially include the 39.2 million Nigerian adults in the country’s mainstream economy. Read more here.

February 1, 2013

Zambia: MFI interest rates capped at 42 per cent

The Bank of Zambia has put a cap on the annual rates of interest that licensed NBFCs or Non-Banking Financial Institutions can charge their customers. This ceiling has been fixed at 42 per cent and is effective immediately. NBFCs in Zambia have in the past charged exorbitant rates. Read more […]

February 1, 2013

How India aims to keep money for poor out of the pockets of other exploiters

India is known for corruption and exploitation of the poor, who cannot defend their rights. Typically, government money meant for poor has always garnered the pockets of the rich involved in implementation. However the Indian government is now launching a new scheme which aims to change the modalities of cash […]

February 1, 2013

Microfinance organization FINCA launches US data centre

FINCA International, an international organization dedicating to financing low income micro entrepreneurs recently opened their Americas’ Data Centre (ADC). This centre is based in Washington DC and processes data for Latin American borrowers. It has other centres in Frankfurt, Germany to process data of African borrowers. Read more here.

February 1, 2013

Opportunity Ghana innovates to reach more marginalized clients

Opportunity Ghana, part of Opportunity International, an organization that is engaged in microfinance, is using the medium of technology to be able to scale access to financial products to a greater number of the marginalized rural Ghanaians. Read more here.