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December 7, 2012
Pakistan: Bringing healthcare to more people
A new wave of social entrepreneurs are starting to offer the low income earners in Pakistan a way to access quality healthcare through a number of social innovations based on business principles. Almost 190 million in the nation have little access to healthcare as the government provided healthcare is unreliable […]
December 7, 2012
India: Government intends to continue sanitation scheme
The Government of India intends to continue the integrated low cost sanitation scheme in the 12th five year plan to eliminate manual scavenging and checking open defecation. Read more here.
December 7, 2012
Coca-Cola, Segway inventor partner to provide clean water
Coca-Cola, a company with the ambitious goal of replenishing 100 per cent of the water used in its beverages by 2020, and an innovator who has built a machine that can purify as much as 300,000 litres have partnered to scale the availability of water in the developing world. Read […]
December 7, 2012
HSBC grants US$25 million to Ghana, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan for sanitation
HSBC Holdings has committed a sum of US$25 million to Ghana in Africa, and India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan in India to provide safe water and improved sanitation to the poor in these countries. The use of this amount will be spread over the duration of 5 years. Read more […]
December 7, 2012
Why small sachets are key to improved drinking water in the developing world
Proctor & Gamble’s initiative of providing clean water in developing countries and disaster prone zones has led to the creation of a small sachet which can purify even the dirtiest and murkiest of water and make it fit for consumption. Read more here.
December 7, 2012
How banana fibres increases efficiency for women workers
Elizabeth Scharpf is a Harvard Business School and Kennedy School of Government graduate who came across the problem of menstruation as a major health and efficiency impediment in the developing world for women, which led her to start her own social enterprise making low cost sanitary towels. Read more here.
December 7, 2012
The issue of open defecation, and how people just won’t talk about it
One in every 7 in the world resorts to open defecation. In rural areas, people hide behind bushes or in forests, and in urban area, people take to open drains or railway tracks. As many as one billion people resort to open defecation, and the primary impediment to changing this […]
December 7, 2012
Bolivia’s sanitation crisis
Around the world, nearly two million people, most of them children die from preventable diseases like diarrhoea. Due to the lack of toilets, there is no effective barrier between human excrement from open defecation, and the water they drink and the food they eat. In Bolivia, this problem is ever […]
December 7, 2012
26 million Filipinos without access to sanitation, losing out on ‘War on Worms’, and upgrading water equipment
According to UNICEF, as many as 26 million Filipinos lack access to toilets. This is about 30 per cent of the total population of Philippines. Of these, about 7.4 people were still using the method of open defecation. Read more here. Poor sanitation has also been revealed as the main […]
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