We are very pleased with this coverage in The Mail on Sunday about our nomination for Designs of the Year 2013 but I’d like to expand on it a bit. As the ‘front man’ for ColaLife I tend to get all the recognition which is not entirely fair! The idea of piggy-backing essential medicines on [...]
ColaLife featured in The Mail on Sunday – credit where credit is due
17 March 2013 by Leave a Comment
Top 10 achievements in 2012
30 December 2012 by 8 Comments
>> 2009′s top 10 >> 2010′s top 10 >> 2011′s top 10 The end of the line. A child using the Kit Yamoyo in a remote village in Kalomo. Image credit: Claire Ward. 1. The launch of COTZ (the ColaLife Operational Trial in Zambia) Remote rural Kit Yamoyo retailer It has taken 25 years from [...]
Airtel Zambia | Mobile phones, internet and banking
8 October 2011 by Leave a Comment
Apologies for the quality of this picture but there was a lot going on (and it was taken on my iPhone). This is the head of one of the queues at the Airtel shop in The Arcades, Lusaka this afternoon (8/10/11). The guy in the red shirt is the Airtel person and he is multi-tasking. [...]
Take 100 children | Graphic illustrations
22 August 2011 by 6 Comments
Several people have remarked on the effectiveness of the graphics I use in my presentations to convey the injustice of the levels of infant mortality in Africa so I thought I’d share them here. The three main images are displayed to the left. The first in the set, the image of 100 children, can be [...]
ColaLife – the nomadic phase begins
21 August 2011 by 1 Comment
Part of the team that moved us out: Jane, Elizabeth, Pete, Angela, me and David This post is really just a tribute to our great friends who always have a habit a rallying just when you just couldn’t manage without them. Our house is a family home and so if we were going to rent [...]
Without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable – Henry Miller
11 July 2011 by 1 Comment
A Shop in Soweto Township. Image credit: Nick Gripton This is a much-used quote attributed to the late Henry Miller from his book The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. I don’t know exactly why it’s quoted so often. I’ll need to read the book. But just imagine for a moment a world without Coca-Cola. Or, if that’s too [...]
Africa. Business opportunity or deserving of help?
9 May 2011 by Leave a Comment
One theme from last week’s time in Cape Town was the issue of ‘Aid’ versus ‘Trade’ or as Ann Grant* put it: ‘Should the countries of Africa be presented as a business opportunity or as deserving of help?’. This has always touched a raw nerve with me as I often feel uneasy about presenting negative [...]
Cape Town Diary | Day 2 | Social Enterprise Summit
5 May 2011 by 1 Comment
The Africa Investor Summit on Social Investing and Social Enterprise in Africa (yes that is Prime Minister, The Right Honourable, Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe with South Africa’s Minister for Economic Development, Ebrahim Patel, and Aeneas Chuma, Resident Co-ordinator, United Nations) Pitching the ColaLife idea to around 120 people, all interested in Social Entrepreneurship in Africa, was a great [...]
ColaLife, Buzzbnk, World Economic Forum on Africa and Lusaka
29 April 2011 by Leave a Comment
First of all, a big thank you is due to all those who put their hands in their pockets last week to take us to the first Buzzbnk milestone. This releases the £3,000 donated so far through the Buzzbnk towards our next trip to Zambia to tie up the loose ends with local partners on [...]
The ColaLife Pilot Business Model explained
28 April 2011 by 8 Comments
This video clip explains the business model on which we are basing the ColaLife pilot. This is still subject to refinement but this is where we stand at the moment. Jane and I are off to the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town on Sunday (more on that tomorrow) and we will be [...]
