In September last year three of us cycled from Boulogne to Biarritz (B2B) to raise money for ColaLife. We raised nearly £6,000 and this money is being used to fund the trips to Zambia to work with partners there to develop the plan for a pilot of ColaLife. We will build on the fun and […]
Archives for 2011
Second field trip to Zambia is underway
16 January 2011 by
Population density in Zambia (people pre square kilometre). Source: Michigan State University. >> Read or subscribe to the Zambia Diary audio diary here Jane and I are returning to Zambia today (16/1/11) to move the pilot plan forward. Last time we talked with many stakeholders and now we hope to be able to consolidate the […]
Zambia Diary | Day 1, Visit 2 | Meeting with UNICEF
17 January 2011 by
We arrived in Lusaka this morning on the overnight flight from Heathrow. The flight wasn’t as smooth as last time with a two hour delay to our departure after we had already boarded the aircraft. And then there was the screaming child! I really feel for the parents at times like this. But looking on […]
Zambia Diary | Day 2, Visit 2 | MSL and SABMiller
18 January 2011 by
Jane outside Zambian Breweries We knew that today was one of the most important of our trip as it included a meeting with three members of the senior management team at Zambian Breweries, a wholly owned subsidiary of SABMiller, and the bottlers of Coca-Cola in Zambia. But the start of the day was going to […]
Zambia Diary | Day 3, Visit 2 | A UNICEF day
19 January 2011 by
Today was a UNICEF day. We spent three hours this morning with the UNICEF team as a follow-up to our initial meeting with them on Monday. This was about drilling down into the detail of a pilot in preparation for the workshop on Friday. This was an incredibly useful exercise and re-confirmed that although ColaLife […]
Zambia Diary | Day 4, Visit 2 | Workshop Preparation
20 January 2011 by
Tomorrow’s workshop materials! Note that this crate contains three Coca-Cola products: Coca-Cola; Fanta and Sprite. In rural areas a retailer will often collect a single crate with a mixture of drinks inside it. Ideally the AidPod should work with all the bottle shapes Most of today was spent preparing for tomorrow’s workshop which is being […]
Zambia Diary | Day 5, Visit 2 | The Workshop
21 January 2011 by
Group work: indicative skills and participation – for the form used, see below Jane and I were very pleased with the way the workshop went. It seemed to go very well. I can take no credit for the design, that was down to Jane. I just did the techie bits! Jane put all she’s ever […]
Zambia Diary | Day 6, Visit 2 | We are off to Mpika (hopefully)
22 January 2011 by
Today’s blog post is this late night audioboo: More tomorrow. Sign-up to the podcast using iTunes Subscribe to the podcast using RSS
Zambia Diary | Day 8 , Visit 2 | KZF and project planning
24 January 2011 by
Outside Keepers Zambia Foundation. From left to right: Ruth Mitimingi; Jane Berry and John Msimuko Today started early with an 8am meeting with Ruth and John at Keepers Zambia Foundation (KZF). Regular readers will know that KZF are the SODIS experts in Zambia but their promoters, who work at community level, support other aspects of […]
Zambia Diary | Day 9 , Visit 2 | UNICEF and logical frameworks
25 January 2011 by
We had another great session at UNICEF today trying to distil the ColaLife idea down to its essence so that we could build it back up into a fundable project. We started off with an analysis of the issue and after a lot of discussion and rubbing out and re-writing ended up with this: The […]
