Sunday 18-Jun-2023 to Saturday 24-Jun-2023 We decided to go into self-imposed lockdown this week having tested positive for COVID on Saturday (17-Jun-2023). All the meetings we had lined up for the week, bar one, were one-to-one which we were able to rearrange. The exception was an invitation to speak to the nutrition Cooperating Partners (donors) […]
Please register for the launch of the ORS/Zinc Co-pack Alliance (ORSZCA)
7 January 2022 by
Over the last six months ColaLife has worked with others, and with Leith Greenslade (JustActions) in particular, to establish the ORS/Zinc Co-pack Alliance (ORSZCA) to advocate for the new WHO recommendation that ORS and Zinc should be co-packaged for the treatment of diarrhoea. This represents ColaLife’s last push to globalise our impact. Regular readers will […]
ORSZCA Update: GFF, UNICEF and more
27 September 2021 by
If you haven’t already done so, please join ORSZCA, the open global network to accelerate the adoption of the new WHO recommendation for diarrhoea treatment: co-packaged ORS and Zinc. Please also follow us on Twitter: @ORSZCA. Supporting the ORSZCA global alliance will lead ColaLife to achieve the final phase of our global impact strategy. ORSZCA […]
Zambia takes on Kit Yamoyo – the final Learning and Steering Group
9 October 2018 by
A landmark: on 6-Sep-18, almost seven years to the day since we moved to Zambia to make a simple diarrhoea treatment as ubiquitous as Coca-Cola, 27 people from 20 key Zambian projects and organisations came to discuss Kit Yamoyo – the kit of life. With over 75 people on our final report mailing list, it […]
Paulo Savaget wins IBM Center for Business of Government Award
15 December 2017 by
Paulo Savaget, a Gates Cambridge Scholar, and his supervisor, Steve Evans, have been awarded $20,000 from the IBM Center for The Business of Government to develop a ‘Playbook’, based on our work in Zambia. This Playbook will outline the process for scale-up in countries beyond Zambia. These IBM awards are for new reports on key public […]
Top 10 achievements in 2014
29 December 2014 by
2009’s top 10 | 2010’s top 10 | 2011’s top 10 | 2012’s top 10 | 2013’s top 10 Some of the mothers of Siachitema. The first remote rural community to receive Kit Yamoyo at the beginning of the trial in August 2012. Image credit: Simon Berry 1. 50,000th Kit Yamoyo sold 2014 got off to a shaky start. We were […]
75% of deaths could be saved if we just did what we know how to do
5 October 2014 by
This blog post was inspired by a tweet from the people at USAID Global Health: I can’t verify whether Cyril Engmann actually said this but if he did it’s significant. Dr Engmann is Senior Program Officer, Neonatal Health at The Gates Foundation. We believe that this statement is true and is certainly backed up by […]
ColaLife and Johnson & Johnson win FT/IFC Transformational Business Award
12 June 2014 by
Tonight (12-Jun-14) ColaLife and our first project funding partner Johnson & Johnson won the FT/IFC Transformational Business Award in the health category. The other shortlisted entries were: Operation ASHA, India Sida (with USAID, Norway, DfID, CIFF, CHAI, and The Gates Foundation) Sweden/Norway/UK/US [we are not sure what this is] We are delighted about this and it […]
