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Social Entrepreneurs Create 3D Printed Wrench From Recycled Ocean Plastic
The Plastic Bank, a Vancouver-based social enterprise I wrote about last fall, just announced it’s created, in the words of co-founder Shaun Frankson, “the world’s first 3D printed item from entirely recycled ocean plastic.” Specifically, they made a wrench.
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- Environment
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How to Beat Malaria, Once and for All
MALARIA is a seasonal disease; with tropical rains come the fevers. In the news media, malaria is also seasonal.
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- Health Care
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GeneXpert’s benefits still not reaching patients
The Department of Health’s multi-million rand investment in an automated, rapid TB test is being short-changed by slow health systems, said researchers this week.
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- Health Care
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GravityLight: Doing More With Less- Designing For The Bottom Of The Pyramid
Globally, 1.3 billion people do not have access to electricity. Millions more are ‘under-electrified’, with unreliable and sporadic supply. Instead they typically rely on kerosene for lighting. Hazardous, expensive and polluting, there is a real need to replace kerosene with a safer, sustainable and affordable light.
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- Health Care
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More evidence that giving poor people money is a great cure for poverty
As solutions to global poverty go, "just give poor people money" is pretty rock solid.
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Women and Money: Bridging the Financial Inclusion Gender Gap in the Global South
The urban poor in the Global South lack access to banking and financial services, and women are disproportionately affected. They are less likely than men to hold a bank account, to take out a loan, or to borrow money. This is a detriment to development since women are more likely to spend extra funds on their family, thereby improving food, education, and health. São Paulo, Mexico City, Nairobi, Bangalore, and Dhaka have taken various approaches to bridging the financial inclusion gender gap.
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- Impact Assessment
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Fighting Financial Exclusion: How To Serve 88 Million Americans Who Have No Bank
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor,” the great American author James Baldwin wrote in 1960.More than half a century later, his words ring true to the 46 million Americans who live below the poverty line and to the millions more who are struggling to stay above it.
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Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: 4 Ways to Invest With a Conscience
For many people, investing has become more than just a way to make money or plan for long-term financial security.
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