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Profit From a Cause
Making and selling portable toilets? Investors wrinkled their noses when Rajeev Kher, Managing Director of Pune-based Saraplast Pvt Ltd, first sought funds from them in 1999. Sixteen years later, the toilets have been such a success that he is spoilt for choice as he looks for a third round of funding. "My company has been profitable for a long time," he says. "But I will never forget that when I started off, it was Aavishkar which came forward to support me."
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- Health Care, Investing
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- South Asia
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To Make India Truly Digital, Target the Poor, Not Rich
America’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the powerful regulator for all communication, has proposed that poor citizens of the US should have subsidised access to the internet via broadband.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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South Africa: KZN Launches Human Milk Banks
Far too few South African women practice exclusive breastfeeding and, as a result, far too many children are dying.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Could Viagra make it harder to spread malaria?
Researchers from the Pasteur Institute in Paris found that drugs like Viagra may be effective in preventing malaria from spreading from person to person by stiffening up the parasite that causes it.
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- Health Care
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Antibiotic Alternatives Rev Up Bacterial Arms Race
More than eight decades have passed since Alexander Fleming’s discovery of a fungus that produced penicillin — a breakthrough that ultimately spawned today’s multibillion-dollar antibiotics industry. Researchers are now looking to nature with renewed vigor for other ways of fighting infection.
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Inequality Has Transformed Surviving Childhood Into a Global Postcode Lottery
You may already know the grim statistics: every day, 17,000 children under the age of five die; nearly half of them are newborn babies.
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Young Founders of STAWI Win $15,000 Thomas J. Bata Legacy Award for Responsible Entrepreneurship in East Africa
At a reception in Nairobi today the Bata Shoe Foundation announced that STAWI, a Kenyan business that processes perishable fruits, grains, and cereals into gluten free flour, is the winner of the $15,000Thomas J. Bata Legacy Award for young responsible entrepreneurship in East Africa. Two runners up - GreenChar and KARIBU Solar Power - received $5,000 each. The Award was established in 2014 in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late CEO of the Bata Shoe Organization, known as "Shoemaker to the World." It provides funding and mentoring for young entrepreneurs inEast Africa who demonstrate a commitment to the values that guided Mr. Bata's leadership of the organization for four decades.
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- Impact Assessment
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Khushi Baby: A High-Tech Way to Track Infant Health
It looks like a dangling, shiny plastic charm, but it’s actually an innovative high-tech device that may revolutionize health care in India. This is Khushi Baby, a small medical device designed to streamline the process of vaccinating children in the developing world.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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