We are very pleased to announce that ColaLife was the joint first winner of the GSK and Save The Children Healthcare Innovation Award which comes with $370,000. We are so delighted with this recognition and wish to thank GSK and Save The Children. This comes at a time when we have struggled for 12 months with the national […]
Archives for 2015
Our partnership with Everly
10 February 2015 by
Everly is a start-up drinks company with a conscience set up by Kyle McCollom and Chris Cole in 2013. Kyle and Chris contacted us during their set-up planning, because they wanted ethics built-in to Everly right from the start. Every time someone buys an Everly product in the US, a donation comes to ColaLife. They call it ‘Hydration […]
KYTS-ACE gets underway
16 February 2015 by
Before we returned to the UK in Jun-14 we helped our Zambian partner, Keepers Zambia Foundation, submit a bid to the local Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Programme funded by the British, Irish and Swedish Governments and administered by CARE Zambia. The SUN Programme in Zambia is targeted at the 14 districts with the highest […]
The Zambia Report – Feb-15
9 March 2015 by
We are now back from a great 4 weeks in Zambia. It was eventful. This blog post contains the headlines – both the Top Ten Good News stories and Bottom Six Bad! Jane and I arrived at Lusaka airport within 30 minutes of each other from two different directions. Jane had travelled direct from the […]
Interactive Infographic – another ColaLife ‘first’?
22 March 2015 by
This infographic was inspired during a recent discussion at a ColaLife Trustees’ meeting about the cumulative effects of the improvements we’d achieved during the COTZ trial in terms of children getting the recommended combination treatment for diarrhoea (ORS and Zinc). This led me to develop an interactive infographic in Excel which you can download here: Impact infographic […]
A big question for the big pharma companies
27 March 2015 by
I am calling all the big pharma companies, including the following, with a big question: Johnson & Johnson Pfizer Roche GSK Novartis Sanofi AstraZenica Merck & Co Bayer Healthcare Eli Lilly Bristol-Mayers Squibb Boehringer Ingelheim Why is it that none of the big pharmaceutical companies produce a diarrhoea treatment kit designed for the treatment of […]
Order confirmed for 452,000 ORS and Zinc co-pack kits
5 April 2015 by
ORS and Zinc co-pack for distribution by the Ministry of Health, Zambia On 20-Mar-15 we made a significant step towards reaching our goal of improving access to, and use of, ORS and zinc for the treatment of diarrhoea. Our pharmaceutical partner in Zambia, Pharmanova, got its first public sector order to supply of 452,000 co-packs, […]
The Zambia Report – May-15
21 May 2015 by
What’s the best way to fulfil our plan to hand over responsibility for Kit Yamoyo to local organisations? With scale-up finally getting underway, we decided that a trip to Zambia once a quarter, with remote support in between, would offer the best chance of success. We were last there in Jan/Feb-15 (as reported here). By the […]
Kit Yamoyo selected as a finalist in the INDEX Awards 2015
12 June 2015 by
INDEX: Design to improve life sets out to inspire, educate and engage people to design sustainable solutions to global problems. The INDEX: Award 2015 received 1,123 nominations breaking all previous records. From these, 46 finalists have been selected and Kit Yamoyo is one of them. The five winners will be revealed and celebrated on 27-Aug-15 […]
Call for support – raffle prizes – DL100 Digital Leaders Awards 2015
15 June 2015 by
In 10 days’ time (25-Jun-15) anybody who is anybody in the digital sector will gather at the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane for the 2015 Digital Leaders 100 Awards, to celebrate leadership in the Digital Age. The awards recognise leaders and organisations who demonstrate a pioneering and sustainable approach to digital transformation across the public sector. We are […]
