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Now, ATM-Like Machines to Dispense Free Medicine
Taking free medicine distribution to the next level, state health department will soon introduce automated medicine dispensing machines. Similar to ATMs, the new and unique machines will be able to recognize prescriptions and dispense medicines.
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- Health Care, NextBillion Originals
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- South Asia
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- drugs, Google Hangout, telemedicine
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34 Places To Find That New Job: Social Innovators Edition
Other than the beloved Idealist.org, where can someone looking for an impactful or innovative job begin their search? For all those looking to enter or shift within the social innovation space, however you define it, optimizing communities and networking seem to be predominant. Here’s a list of sites to bookmark or pass on to a friend on the hunt right now.
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- Impact Assessment, NextBillion Originals
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- jobs, NextBillion.net, social impact
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Using Technology to Close the Gender Gap in Sierra Leone
Admire Bio has the reassured presence of a successful businesswoman, with an edge that reveals she is still hungry for more. Bio, 28, a single mother living with her parents, set up her first internet cafe in the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown, only a year ago. She has expanded with two more branches, and plans to go national if she can secure a bank loan. "My biggest motivation is...
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- NextBillion Originals
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- NextBillion.net
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The Women Bringing Solar Power to Sierra Leone
A group of 12 women from villages in Sierra Leone is in the frontline of a battle to bring solar-powered electricity to rural communities. No small feat, given that rural Sierra Leone is not connected to power. The women were all trained at Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, in western ...
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- NextBillion Originals
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- NextBillion.net
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Kopo Kopo Helps Bring Mobile Microfinance to Sierra Leone
Kopo Kopo, a software company that operates a services platform connecting mobile money to microfinance institutions, has partnered withHope Micro and Splash Mobile Money to bring mobile financial services to the country. Hope Micro customers will now be able to repay their loans via Splash Mobile Money, a service that allows users on the top three mobile networks to load cash onto their phones, send money, pay bills, withdrawcash, and buy goods. As a result, Hope Micro customers n...
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- NextBillion Originals
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- NextBillion.net
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