Jane and Simon with Charity and Jane, two of the Keepers Zambia Foundation Field Officers (March 2018) I have been awarded an OBE for services to global child health in the 2023 New Year’s Honours List. Not everyone accepts an award under the UK Honours System. Benjamin Zephaniah refused his, as he said it would […]
Kit Yamoyo is added to Design Museum’s permanent collection
7 July 2018 by
The Design Museum as it was in 2013 when ColaLife’s Kit Yamoyo won Product Design of the Year In April last year (Apr-17) we announced that Kit Yamoyo had been added to the permanent collection of the V&A. Well, we are now proud to announce that it has also been added to the permanent collection […]
ColaLife’s Kit Yamoyo Flexi-pack wins UK Packaging Award
12 November 2015 by
Last night (11-Nov-15) ColaLife’s Kit Yamoyo Flexi-pack won a UK Packaging Award – “Resource Efficient Pack of the Year”. That’s what happens when you have great packaging partners: Amcor Flexibles and PI Global. Thank you guys! In 2013 we won the very prestigious Dupont Packaging Awards for our original ‘aidpod‘ which fitted between the necks of bottles […]
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 […]
ColaLife wins GSK and Save The Children Healthcare Innovation Award
30 January 2015 by
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 […]
Focus on Amcor
8 December 2014 by
Last Monday (1-Dec-14) we were invited to visit Amcor’s packaging plant in Ledbury by Peter Ettridge, ColaLife’s champion within the company. We were introduced to Amcor through Peter by PI Global, our packaging partner in the UK, way back in early 2012. Amcor is a massive multi-national company that specialises in flexible packaging from simple plastic bags […]
ColaLife shortlisted for the FT/IFC Transformational Business Awards
21 April 2014 by
We are delighted to announce that ColaLife has been shortlisted (1 of 3) for the FT/IFC Transformational Business Awards in the Health category. Our funding partner, the Johnson & Johnson Corporate Citizen Trust, proposed and put in the entry. The awards showcase ground-breaking business initiatives that create long-term, transformative solutions to environmental, social and corporate governance […]
ColaLife wins the top prize at the DuPont Packaging Innovation Awards
17 May 2013 by
Last night (16/5/13) while we slept in Zambia, there were celebrations going in Wilmington, Delaware, USA at the DuPont Packaging Innovation Awards. This morning we learnt that we’d won the top prize (Diamond) and we also won in the ‘Food Security’ category. It was great that our colleague, Rohit Ramchandani, was there and met up […]
Kit Yamoyo wins Product Design of the Year 2013
10 April 2013 by
I’ve just got back from the field, with so many stories to tell and pictures to show, to the news that ColaLife’s Kit Yamoyo has won the Product category of the Designs of the Year 2013. The maverick in me thinks it’s fantastic that something designed with the poor and for the poor, and with the word […]
The Saturday Review discuss Designs of the Year 2013
26 March 2013 by
Here’s a discussion of the Designs of the Year 2013 exhibition at The Design Museum that was part of BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Review programme hosted by Tom Sutcliffe with guests David Schneider, Ekow Eshun and Kathryn Hughes. The discussion is topped and tailed with mentions of ColaLife. The full programme can be downloaded from the BBC […]
