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Vodacom has launched a new funeral insurance product following the successful launch of its insurance business more than four years ago.
Vodacom finds healthy market for funeral insurance in South AfricaNews
The world’s first primary healthcare clinic on wheels will be launched in the South African city of Ladysmith on Thursday. The Phelophepa health train is an initiative by Eskom and Transnet, the electricity and freight logistics utilities respectively, aimed at providing mobile health services to communities across the country.
SA To Unveil Momentous Mobile ClinicBlog Post
Can personalized information about their pension payouts help lower-income individuals boost the size of their pensions? To find out, Innovations for Poverty Action placed eight publicly accessible computer modules in Chilean government offices, offering information on individuals' retirement savings from the national database. Here's what they found.
How to Help Low-Income People Save for Retirement: Make it PersonalNews
Until late last evening, the company’s representatives were still handing out invitations to a launch event, happening this morning and expected to be graced by Uganda’s head of state, H. E. Yoweri Museveni, according to the invitation cards.
BREAKING: MTN Launches MoKash – Mobile Money Savings and LoansNews
About a year ago, before the Zika virus grabbed global attention, there were zero vaccines for it in development. Today, according to the World Health Organization, there are 30. Some of the work has been astonishingly quick. Human trials for two experimental vaccines have already begun.
The race for a Zika vaccine is intense. But it may be missing the most important playersNews
As an American high school student, John Cefalu never imagined he would be in the business of creating entrepreneurs in Africa, but a trip to Kenya changed his worldview.
Collegian’s Nonprofit Empowers Needy Africans Via EntrepreneurshipBlog Post
The Second Vatican Conference on Impact Investing brought together leaders from the Catholic Church and impact investment communities to discuss the role of impact investing for the poor. The two groups found strong overlap not only in their shared goals of helping the poor, but also in the ways that they measure social impact.
Impact Investing Conference at the Vatican: New Perspectives From Both SidesBlog Post
In the fifth and final post in a series exploring careers in social innovation and global sustainable development for STEM professionals, Khanjan Mehta gives advice on how to get your foot in the door and network in order to "test-drive" different organizations. At the end of the day, he says, it's all about finding the right fit.
Seven Questions for Career Seekers – Finding Your Niche in Sustainable Development
