While we progress the ColaLife trial (COTZ) here in Zambia we are also working on a voluntary basis supporting our trustees to run the ColaLife Charity back in the UK. As part of this work, we are looking for a consultant to help us develop a financial sustainability plan for ColaLife ‘the organisation’. We are [...]
Packaging Fest at PI Global
13 April 2012 by 4 Comments
We had a great day on Wednesday. Eric, the head of the AidPod team at PI Global had pulled together all those involved in the final stages of the packaging workpackage to review options and look at dependencies. Key players at this point are Charpak who will be manufacturing the AidPod container and lid; Amcor [...]
Top 10 achievements in 2011
22 December 2011 by 2 Comments
>> 2009′s top 10 >> 2010′s top 10 1. Co-design of the ColaLife Trial We first visited Zambia in October 2010 to gauge interest in a trial there of the ColaLife idea. We got an overwhelmingly positive response and so started working with key local partners on a plan. We visited again in January and [...]
Charitable status approved for ColaLife
28 June 2011 by 3 Comments
ColaLife’s Charity Number On Wednesday last week (22/6/11) we received notification from the Charity Commission that our application for charitable status in England and Wales had been approved. This is great news. The fact that we will now be regulated by the Charity Commission will give reassurance to future donors – who won’t know us [...]
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 [...]
Intercontinental collaboration | Mash-up of the month
14 April 2011 by 2 Comments
Picture the scene. People on three continents are lining themselves up for a telephone conference that took a while to set up given the time differences and availability of the various parties. But at last the time comes. It’s 8am at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA, it’s 2pm at the UNICEF HQ in Lusaka, [...]
Zambia Diary | Day 10, Visit 2 | Logframes, World Vision and Mpika
26 January 2011 by Leave a Comment
My trip out today on a Coca-Cola truck fell through last night which was a shame but at least it meant that Jane and I could work together on the pilot design while the hints and tips from yesterday’s session with UNICEF were still fresh in our minds. It also meant that we could meet [...]
ColaLife on the BBC World Service this Monday (8/11/10)
5 November 2010 by 9 Comments
It all started with a tweet. This one: Two weeks ago I was driving through Lusaka listening to Claudia Hammond’s ‘Health Check’ programme on the BBC World Service which transmits on FM in Lusaka. At the end of the programme Claudia said she was on Twitter, so I tweeted. A series of exchanges resulted in [...]
Zambia Diary | Day 5 | The rise of Zambian Civil Society
15 October 2010 by 3 Comments
Jane and Victor Simfukwe of Transaid You will have to forgive me for continuously commenting on how things have changed but they have! And here’s another thing – the rise of the Zambian NGO. The last 15-20 years has seen the development of the Civil Society Sector (Third Sector) as government policy has changed and [...]
Zambia update 24/10/10
24 September 2010 by 2 Comments
As announced previously we are going to focus on Zambia initially for a trial of the ColaLife concept. Since we made this decision our communications with potential stakeholders have become much more meaningful – can you meet? – could you attend a workshop? – who else should we be talking to? And so on. It [...]
