You may have noticed that we are on a fundraising drive. But before I tell you why we are doing this, let me tell you how we have multiplied the money we have received from individual supporters so far. To date we have received about £10,000 in donations, to put together the partnership and develop [...]
Multiply your money | Invest in ColaLife (or book a holiday & help that way too)
4 September 2011 by 3 Comments
Intelligence from Kenya and Uganda
10 May 2011 by 4 Comments
We have been in Pretoria today staying with Judy and Ian Goldman. Ian is a member of the ColaLife Virtual Advisory Board. The focus has been on catching up with emails and amongst these was this great report from ColaLife supporter Stewart Martin who is just back from a trip to Kenya and Uganda. Hi [...]
So what is, who is, WeCan-Ugan? (Part 2)
25 April 2011 by 1 Comment
Here is the second part of Muhammad Atif’s account of the recent WeCan-Ugan trip to northern Uganda. During the trip the WeCan-Ugan team undertook research for ColaLife. WeCan-Ugan (Education) – What We Did The WeCan-Ugan team During the civil war some areas in northern Uganda were particularly hard hit. The Barlonyo massacre killed 482 Ugandans [...]
So what is, who is, WeCan-Ugan?
23 April 2011 by 4 Comments
We received a huge contribution to the development of the ColaLife concept last week from WeCan-Ugan. It took the form of a report summarising a very large survey of the views of people in northern Uganda on ColaLife. The report can be downloaded here. WeCan-Ugan operates under the umbrella of King’s College SIFE (Students in [...]
ColaLife research Northern Uganda
20 April 2011 by 2 Comments
Click image to download the report (PDF, 684KB) I’ve reported before on the work of a group of young people from Kings College London in Northern Uganda: WeCan Ugan. WeCan Ugan work in partnership a local grassroots NGO called HORARD (Hope Revival Agency for Rural Development) in an area that was changed forever and faces unique [...]
Another water sterilisation option? Colloidal Silver (CS)
19 April 2011 by 1 Comment
I had a very interesting meeting yesterday morning (18/4/11) with Lindsay Smith who is working for World Health Alliance International to broaden the market for SilverDYNE from beyond its use today in disaster relief situations. SilverDYNE is a silver-based product that sterlises water at the point of use. One 30ml bottle is enough to sterilise [...]
News from WeCan Ugan, Uganda
4 April 2011 by Leave a Comment
I reported earlier about a trip by a group of young people from Kings College to northern Uganda. Well they’ve been and they are now back. One of the team members was Muhammad Atif and he has kindly submitted this guest blog post about the trip: The team left Uganda on Saturday and landed at London [...]
Operation Uganda
22 March 2011 by 2 Comments
My name is Claire and I am a third year medical student at King’s College London having studied International Health at UCL last year, and Mo is likewise a third year medic who I managed to pursuade to come with me to the Innovation’s Evening at the Royal Society of Medicine a few of weeks [...]
Fieldwork becomes a reality
29 August 2010 by 5 Comments
View Larger Map Apologies for the lack of blog posts recently but there has been a lot going on and some exciting developments in the pipeline that I can’t QUITE report just yet. But I can report that, thanks to the ColaLife supporters who sponsored me and the other cyclists, we have raised enough money [...]
Have we got our priorities right?
15 July 2010 by 4 Comments
This Coca-Cola was some of the last to be produced and sold in glass bottles in Malta. These are 300ml bottles. African bottles typically hold 350ml. One morning in 1988 I arrived early for a meeting in Chinsali, a small town in NE Zambia. I went into the dilapidated council chamber. There was no one [...]
