I’m very excited to draw your attention to a new player in the drive to increase ORS and Zinc coverage: Clear Solutions. Clear Solutions came out of the process I wrote about back in February: UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY: Would you like to be supported to set up a new NGO to improve access to co-packaged ORS […]
A big “thank you” to Dr Kasonde Hon Minister of Health (retired)
21 September 2016 by
The Hon Dr Joseph Kasonde has just retired as the Minister of Health of Zambia. We will miss him and his support for our work in Zambia. He has been with us from the start. We first met with him on 26-Jun-12 and he’s been enormously supportive ever since then. In Aug-12 he agreed to […]
Cholera and Chlorine – two stories from Zambia
14 April 2016 by
Here are two stories written by me, as an outsider looking in, as a vaccination campaign starts in Zambia to control the Cholera outbreak that started in Feb-16. 1. The Chlorine story Ruth adds Chlorine to water to make it safe to drink at home in Chigwilizano Village in Kafue District, Zambia Image credit: […]
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 […]
ColaLife featured in The Mail on Sunday – credit where credit is due
17 March 2013 by
We are very pleased with this coverage in The Mail on Sunday about our nomination for Designs of the Year 2013 but I’d like to expand on it a bit. As the ‘front man’ for ColaLife I tend to get all the recognition which is not entirely fair! The idea of piggy-backing essential medicines on […]
ColaLife partners with Eawag on SODIS
6 December 2010 by
Left to right: SODIS bag full of water | Empty SODIS bag | Folded SODIS bag inside a model AidPod We are pleased to be able to announce a partnership between ColaLife and the SODIS group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag). The SODIS group within Eawag do research, promotion […]
ColaLife has introduced me to some great people
23 September 2009 by
Today I met two more people face to face that I’d hooked up with online through ColaLife. At lunchtime I met Maria Diaz. Maria is part of the team at CTT. CTT is led by William Hoyle who has been a great ColaLife supporter and evangelist from the very start and he has infected the […]
?What If!, the innovation company, support ColaLife (again)
28 August 2009 by
Through my day job (Head of Third Sector Team at Defra), I had the good fortune to meet Dave Allan and James Baderman of ?What If!, the innovation company. ?What If! is an international company whose clients include Coca-Cola, Unilever, Cadbury Schweppes and many other big names. On this particular evening ?What If! had been […]
ColaLife brokers partnership with global NGO for Tanzanian field work
4 August 2009 by
Our first major achievement was to get Coca-Cola’s agreement to look at trialling our ideas on the ground in Africa. Now we can reveal our second major achievement: we have successfully found them the partner they needed. Three weeks ago, on 20th July 2009, after months of partnership development talks, AED (The Academy for Educational […]
Why we still need Google’s support
23 April 2009 by
Animation produced by Facebook members to support our Project 10^100 entry There is a danger, now that Coca-Cola have said yes (probably) to trials of our idea in Tanzania, the people at Google will think ‘job done’ and decide we don’t need their help. However, the truth is that we need their help now more […]
