Sunday 2-Jul-2023 to Tuesday 11-Jul-2023 (10 days) The main focus of this week was the ‘Kit Yamoyo Story’ event with Roma Chilengi, Health Advisor the the President, as guest of honour. This ran on Thursday (6-Jul-2023). It was an energising occasion and great success. It is reported on separately here. However, we were able to […]
Event: The Kit Yamoyo Story
11 July 2023 by
A key objective of our final trip to Zambia was to use it make some noise around Kit Yamoyo, to celebrate its legacy and reaffirm the commitment of the government and private sector to the product. The planning for this began back in Mar-2023 when I asked James Thornton, who had been the British High […]
Final Visit to Zambia – Week 3
4 July 2023 by
Sunday 25-Jun-2023 to Saturday 1-Jul-2023 This week we released ourselves from our self-imposed COVID lockdown. We started going out again and meetings were back on. The big event of the week was an all-day, hands-on workshop at BongoHive. BongoHive is a very exciting local organisation. A hub for technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. Current themes are […]
Quantifying the Kit Yamoyo Legacy
29 June 2023 by
Donors fund many projects in less developed countries. This is a good thing. I am proud as a UK tax payer that some of the tax I pay goes to help support less developed countries. The problem is that many projects are established with the best intentions but fail to deliver long term benefits and […]
Final Visit to Zambia – Week 1
23 June 2023 by
It’s been five years since our involvement in Zambia ceased. It ended formally at the Last Learning & Steering Group Meeting on 6-Sep-2018 and we’ve not been back since. Reportedly, things have been carrying on without us. Now we are here we can see for ourselves. The reason for the trip is to tie up […]
ColaLife is a catalyst – that’s all
19 July 2021 by
As we all learn to live with COVID, ColaLife is working to re-start its ORS/Zinc co-packaging advocacy work, which stopped as COVID emerged, overwhelming many of the partners we need to make this happen. We will have exciting announcements to make about this re-start in the next couple of weeks – but here’s a preview: […]
Amcor donate packaging for one million ORS/Zinc co-packs
28 September 2020 by
Amcor, our scale-up packaging partner, has donated the packaging for a further 1 million ORS/Zinc co-packs. These will be used by Pharmanova in Zambia to assemble ORS/Zinc co-packs for the government – branded as the GRZ ORS/Zinc co-pack – and for the private sector – branded as Kit Yamoyo. The shipment will leave London on […]
Our EML application now open for comments on the WHO website
31 January 2019 by
[20-Mar-2023 Addendum: the links below to the WHO website no longer work. Our application can now be downloaded here. The summary of the WHO Secretariat’s decision to include co-packaged ORS and zinc is available here.] Our application to get co-packaged ORS and zinc on the WHO Model Essential Medicines List for Children (EMLc) is now […]
Top 10 achievements in 2018
30 December 2018 by
2009’s top 10 | 2010’s top 10 | 2011’s top 10 | 2012’s top 10 | 2013’s top 10 2014’s top 10 | 2015’s top 10 | 2016’s top 10 | 2017’s top 10 2018 saw us move from self-sustaining development in Zambia towards the globalisation of our work. The cover page of our application to the World Health […]
Zambian Government tender for 250,000 ORS/Zinc co-packs
17 May 2018 by
The evidence just keeps on coming: the work we have done in Zambia, to transform access to the internationally recommended treatment for diarrhoea, will be self-sustaining. Click here for more blog posts on this self-sustaining theme. The latest evidence emerged last Monday (7-May-18) when this notice (on the right) was published in Zambia’s national newspapers. […]
