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How Social Entrepreneurs Can Have the Most Impact
Social enterprise in the U.S. is a fast-growing, but fragmented, movement.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, scale
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This Fridge Doesn’t Need Electricity To Stay Cool
Inspired by studying frozen lakes, the Sure Chill can stay cold for up to 35 days--long enough to get life-saving vaccines to kids still living off the grid.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- vaccines
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Brazil Approves GM Mosquito That Could Cut Dengue
The approval was made last week (10 April) by the National Technical Commission on Biosecurity, the organisation that regulates transgenic organisms in Brazil.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Latin America
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ExxonMobil Provides New Grant for Malaria
The grants from ExxonMobil and the ExxonMobil Foundation will support a wide range of research, advocacy, treatment and prevention programmes to accelerate progress in the fight against malaria, which still claims more than 627,000 lives each year, mostly children under the age of five.
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- Education, Health Care
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- research
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One Stop Shop Toilet Project for Densely Populated Areas of Africa Launched
Poor sanitation and unhygienic practices in urban slums and rural populations have been cited as the major causes of diseases while young children have been singled out as the most affected.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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E-banking Central to Uruguay Financial Inclusion Law
Electronic banking services will play a central role in Uruguay's new financial inclusion law, approved by the senate last week, local paper Espectador reported.
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- Uncategorized
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Bharti Enjoys Airtel Money Surge in Africa
Airtel, India’s largest mobile operator, and which has operations across 17 African countries, disclosed the numbers as part of its consolidated Q4 results.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Uganda’s Bank of Africa Unveils Mobile Banking Platform
Uganda’s Bank of Africa (BOA) has launched a mobile banking platform geared towards earning the bank a larger market share amongst those using mobile money as a way of doing business.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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