Last night (16/5/13) while we slept in Zambia, there were celebrations going in Wilmington, Delaware, USA at the DuPont Packaging Innovation Awards. This morning we learnt that we’d won the top prize (Diamond) and we also won in the ‘Food Security’ category. It was great that our colleague, Rohit Ramchandani, was there and met up [...]
Beyond the call of duty – Cairo to Cape Town for ColaLife
8 May 2013 by 2 Comments
Regular readers will know Ali & Lizzie, the couple who are cycling from Cairo to Cape Town for ColaLife (and two other charities close to their hearts). Well here is some sad news about a very determined woman. This is a quoted straight from their blog. The original post is here. Last Leg – Lost [...]
Phase 2 Community-based marketing gets underway
28 April 2013 by 2 Comments
Seven months ago, when we started the ColaLife trial, nobody knew what a Kit Yamoyo anti-diarrhoea kit was. So the first 6 months of the community-based marking activity has been about awareness raising and the launch of a completely new product (Kit Yamoyo) into remote rural areas of Kalomo and Katete. A key tool to [...]
ColaLife Cairo to Cape Town Cyclists pass through Zambia
25 April 2013 by Leave a Comment
Before the excitement of Product Design of the Year award took over our lives, it was lovely to play host to two amazing people – Ali and Lizzie – as they cycled through Zambia on their way from Cairo to Cape Town. Their target is to raise £10,000 for three charities which mean a lot [...]
Kit Yamoyo wins Product Design of the Year 2013
10 April 2013 by 4 Comments
I’ve just got back from the field, with so many stories to tell and pictures to show, to the news that ColaLife’s Kit Yamoyo has won the Product category of the Designs of the Year 2013. The maverick in me thinks it’s fantastic that something designed with the poor and for the poor, and with the word [...]
The Saturday Review discuss Designs of the Year 2013
26 March 2013 by Leave a Comment
Here’s a discussion of the Designs of the Year 2013 exhibition at The Design Museum that was part of BBC Radio 4′s Saturday Review programme hosted by Tom Sutcliffe with guests David Schneider, Ekow Eshun and Kathryn Hughes. The discussion is topped and tailed with mentions of ColaLife. The full programme can be downloaded from the BBC [...]
Designs of the Year 2013 | ColaLife gets a high profile
21 March 2013 by
The Designs of the Year 2013 exhibition opened yesterday (20/3/13) and we would have loved to have been there. The next best thing was watching the #designsoftheyear tweets. It wasn’t long before photos of the ColaLife exhibit came through (isn’t social media wonderful?). The first from @Clerkenwell2013 and the second by @dfid_innovation who said: novel partnership, [...]
ColaLife featured in The Mail on Sunday – credit where credit is due
17 March 2013 by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Trailer for ColaLife Documentary released
9 March 2013 by Leave a Comment
Here it is, the 60 sec trailer for The Cola Road, the 40 minute documentary on ColaLife. The filmaker, Claire Ward, describes the film as follows: For years, it has baffled visitors to developing countries: Coca-Cola is everywhere, but basic medicines are not. This year, Zambia has become the first African country to embrace ColaLife, an [...]
It’s the value chain stupid!
3 March 2013 by 2 Comments
Private sector people with supply chain experience will chuckle when they read this. It will be so obvious to them. But it’s not obvious to the rest of us. This is just one example of how public private partnerships are so helpful. What’s obvious to someone from the private sector may not be obvious to [...]
