Trailer for ColaLife Documentary released

The Cola Road 150 x 150

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 [...]

ColaLife supporters’ networking event, Design Museum, 18 December

This is a Big Thank You Event for all our supporters who are able to get to the Design Museum in London on 18 December. We’d be nowhere without our supporters and we’d like to say A Big Zambian Zikomo – thank you – face to face – to as many of you as possible at [...]

New Year’s Resolutions that will help ColaLife

1 Get Fit! OK, so you may be pretty fit already but you can always get fitter. So why not do something a bit challenging at the same time, with loads of other people and help a good cause too. ColaLife is the charity partner for this year’s ‘Lionheart Cyclosportive’ which takes place on Sunday, [...]

ColaLife Poster

View and download the full-size poster here. The full-size poster will print 4′ x 6′. I am totally delighted with this poster. It was produced by Kieran Harrod of Derby Graphic Design following our call on the ColaLife Facebook Page for graphic designers to produce a poster for the World Congress conferences. The poster will be [...]

ColaLife – the nomadic phase begins

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 [...]

Please ‘Like’ or comment on our Changemakers competition entry

Last month we were nominated for a Changemakers Award and invited to submit an entry in the Making More Health: Achieving Individual, Family And Community Well-Being competition. This turned out to be more work than we thought but Jane plugged away at it and our entry is now public here. Please help to draw attention to our [...]

For the love of art and good causes

On Monday (11/7/11) I spotted the above tweet from Nichole Herbert, the brains behind ArtPlatform. It caught my attention because Sherina Rezvani pour is one of the artists who has already pledged a piece of her art to ColaLife through the ArtPlatform. Then the tweet below came through: Thank you Sherina! This is the latest [...]

Call to Action | Let’s all move together

Facebook, engagement and keeping up with news and developments This is a request for a minute of your time. Those of you familiar with ColaLife’s history will know that we started off in 2008 by asking for your support through our Facebook group. Over 8,000 of you have signed up over the past three years. [...]

Convening Power

As it is the weekend(!) I am affording myself the luxury of straying from the day-to-day of ColaLife to write down the things I’ve been saying about “Convening Power” during recent presentations (Royal Society of Medicine, TEDx Berlin) and how we’ve used this to get where we’ve got with the ColaLife project. The term, Convening [...]

Calling all our supporters!

The sand box room at the BFI and the venue for our Christmas Reception Here’s a brilliant opportunity for 150 of our ColaLife supporters to get together in London: on 1 December at 7pm we will be hosting a Christmas Reception at the British Film Institute in London. As you all know, for the ColaLife [...]