Running a successful trial is one thing, scaling up is quite another. So we have been told by several commentators. So, we’ve made sure we are ready for the key issues people pointed out that we would face. These include: Getting a manufacturer on board, to make the product their own. Creating a new design, […]
Scale-up cranks up | Lusaka wholesalers in place
1 March 2014 by
Apologies for the fall in blogging rate. There’s been less than one a week since 1-Jan-14. For the moment blogging time has been swallowed up supporting requests to access our trial findings through our open access initiative. But that’s OK as it’s probably our most important dissemination activity right now. If you’d like access to […]
Kit Yamoyo on local radio in Kalomo and Katete
8 July 2013 by
The Keepers Zambia Foundation (KZF) field staff have been using their respective local radio stations for several weeks now to spread the word about Kit Yamoyo and keep the brand in people’s minds. The approach has been different in each district. Katete has run weekly Kit Yamoyo ‘shows’ where they talk with the show’s host about […]
The problem is, you never consulted us. A clip from The Cola Road.
7 June 2013 by
Here is a clip from the independently produced (and funded) ColaLife documentary – The Cola Road. The film maker, Claire Ward, followed us in August 2012 as we prepared for the current trial. While she was here in Zambia she was joined by two colleagues: Guy Godfree and Tracy Levy. The voice on the clip is Albert […]
Phase 2 Community-based marketing gets underway
28 April 2013 by
Seven months ago, when we started the ColaLife trial, nobody knew what a Kit Yamoyo anti-diarrhoea kit was. So the first 6 months of the community-based marking activity has been about awareness raising and the launch of a completely new product (Kit Yamoyo) into remote rural areas of Kalomo and Katete. A key tool to […]
ColaLife Cairo to Cape Town Cyclists pass through Zambia
25 April 2013 by
Before the excitement of Product Design of the Year award took over our lives, it was lovely to play host to two amazing people – Ali and Lizzie – as they cycled through Zambia on their way from Cairo to Cape Town. Their target is to raise £10,000 for three charities which mean a lot […]
Midterm survey well underway – Rohit returns to Canada
29 March 2013 by
The huge undertaking that is the COTZ* midline survey is now well under way in four districts: the two intervention districts (Katete and Kalomo) and the two control districts (Petauke and Monze). In each district our partners RuralNet Associates are surveying 625 households, 45 retailers and talking to the health centres to see if our […]
Question of the month . . .
28 February 2013 by
. . . what are these four men doing up a tree on the top of an ant hill in rural Kalomo, Zambia? Answers in the comments please! Images by Charlotte Mwanza
Gladys Imasiku explains how the Kit Yamoyo has affected her work at Kalonda Rural Health Centre
26 February 2013 by
I have reported before that staff at the rural health centres within the trial areas are saying that fewer mothers are reporting to them with children with diarrhoea. In short, diarrhoea cases have gone down leaving staff to deal with more complex issues. This is of course anecdotal at the moment but we hope to have […]
Cycling from Cairo to Cape Town for ColaLife
28 December 2012 by
No, it isn’t me – well not this time anyway! A few months ago, we got one of those out-of-the-blue emails, which always seem to come with an unrefusable offer. This time, it was the intrepid Ali and Lizzie: “We’ve done Lands End to John O’Groats and now we’re cycling across Africa – can we […]
