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Why clean cookstoves are a good investment

The developed world consumes much more energy than the developing world – the average annual per capita CO2 emissions of a Ugandan is 0.1 metric tonnes – 0.6 per cent of that of a US citizen’s 18 metric tonnes. However, that does not mean that attempting to reduce the emissions there […]

July 24, 2012

Vietnam: Vocational Training needs a push

Students in Vietnam prefer to repeat their exams in case they fail, and have not even considered taking a vocational training course that might teach them valuable skills. Out of 50 odd students, only 2 said that they might consider it as an option. This is hurting vocational training schools […]

July 24, 2012

India: School on wheels launched in Delhi for slum children

The international non-governmental organisation Save the Children recently launched a mobile learning centre for slum children called the ‘school-on-wheels’ in Delhi. According to the NGO, the mobile centre aims to reach a total of 2,000 street and slum children, aged between three and 14 years, in a span of two […]

July 24, 2012

UK-funded private schools to open across Africa and Asia

Global media and education services company Pearson is to invest £10 million in the creation of a network of private schools across Africa and Asia. The Pearson group, which owns Financial Times and Penguin Books, aim to make education affordable to poor children through this move. Read more here.

July 24, 2012

Criticisms of the Pearsons approach to capitalise on education in developing countries

There has been a bevy of negative reaction to the much publicized move by the British education services company Pearson to open schools across Africa and Asia. The original piece in Guardian contained excerpts that raised questions about the motive behind charging the poor countries money for education which can […]

July 24, 2012

Pakistan: Low cost private schools conducive to education

In Pakistan, over the last decade, low cost private schools have dominated the education sector, and has ended up supporting about 35 per cent of the enrolled student population in Punjab, and 31 per cent in all of Pakistan. Read more here.

July 24, 2012

UNICEF UK, with Domestos, for South Sudan’s sanitation

This post talks about the initiatives for South Sudan, and especially its children in the sector of sanitation. UNICEF UK has partnered with Domestos, owned by Unilever, which donates a part of its profits to UNICEF’s vital sanitation work in South Sudan, where less than 13 per cent of the […]

July 24, 2012

Plan International’s sanitation work in Zambia

Since 2008, Plan International Zambia has been implementing Community Led Total Sanitation in Mansa, which promotes usage of basic sanitation practices including traditional pit latrines. CLTS’s ‘wash-to-waste-facility’ is implementing innovative methods to ensure basic sanitation. Read more here.

July 24, 2012

‘Who Gives a Crap?’

Simon Griffiths is the co-founder of an Australian/American company that markets eco-friendly toilet paper, 50 per cent of the profits from which would go to constructing toilet facilities in developing countries. This company, called ‘Who Gives a Crap’ needed US$100,000 to help jumpstart the company’s first production run, and for […]