ColaLife goes head to head with Prof Nick Spencer of Warwick University on involving multi-nationals in efforts to improve child health. Here is the BMJ’s press release announcing the debate. What do you think? Debate: Should we welcome multinational companies’ connection to projects to improve child health? Partnerships with multinational companies in child health programmes […]
Lauren Braun and her Alma Sana Vaccine Bracelet
30 November 2014 by
Jane and I had the pleasure of meeting Lauren Braun over Skype on Saturday (29-Nov-14) and what an inspirational 2hr conversation it was. Lauren, who is currently studying for an MSc in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has spent the last 5 years conceiving, designing and testing what has […]
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 […]
Top 10 achievements in 2012
30 December 2012 by
2009’s top 10 | 2010’s top 10 | 2011’s top 10 The end of the line. A child using the Kit Yamoyo in a remote village in Kalomo. Image credit: Claire Ward. 1. The launch of COTZ (the ColaLife Operational Trial in Zambia) Remote rural Kit Yamoyo retailer It has taken 25 years from the birth of […]
Airtel Zambia | Mobile phones, internet and banking
8 October 2011 by
Apologies for the quality of this picture but there was a lot going on (and it was taken on my iPhone). This is the head of one of the queues at the Airtel shop in The Arcades, Lusaka this afternoon (8/10/11). The guy in the red shirt is the Airtel person and he is multi-tasking. […]
Take 100 children | Graphic illustrations
22 August 2011 by
Several people have remarked on the effectiveness of the graphics I use in my presentations to convey the injustice of the levels of infant mortality in Africa so I thought I’d share them here. The three main images are displayed to the left. The first in the set, the image of 100 children, can be […]
ColaLife – the nomadic phase begins
21 August 2011 by
Part of the team that moved us out: Jane, Elizabeth, Pete, Angela, me and David This post is really just a tribute to our great friends who always have a habit a rallying just when you just couldn’t manage without them. Our house is a family home and so if we were going to rent […]
Without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable – Henry Miller
11 July 2011 by
A Shop in Soweto Township. Image credit: Nick Gripton This is a much-used quote attributed to the late Henry Miller from his book The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. I don’t know exactly why it’s quoted so often. I’ll need to read the book. But just imagine for a moment a world without Coca-Cola. Or, if that’s too […]
Africa. Business opportunity or deserving of help?
9 May 2011 by
One theme from last week’s time in Cape Town was the issue of ‘Aid’ versus ‘Trade’ or as Ann Grant* put it: ‘Should the countries of Africa be presented as a business opportunity or as deserving of help?’. This has always touched a raw nerve with me as I often feel uneasy about presenting negative […]
Cape Town Diary | Day 2 | Social Enterprise Summit
5 May 2011 by
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 […]
