This is a guest post from David Schaub-Jones who works with SeeSaw, a social venture that focuses on how technology can strengthen sanitation and water providers in developing countries. Follow SeeSaw on Twitter: @ontheseesaw.
Recently we began conducting research into the use of our various products around the world, assessing impact and use, apparent successes, perceived and critical failures, as well as qualitative and quantitative evaluations of the data collected from each platform deployment.
In early 2005, following the Tsunami, I collaborated with a cross-section of people at the organization where I work to put together a summary of lessons learned and some short guidelines for working with children and communities in emergencies.
In early 2005, following the Tsunami, I collaborated with a cross-section of people at the organization where I work to put together a summary of lessons learned and some short guidelines for working with children and communities in emergencies.
Nils Blythe
Business Correspondent, BBC News
It is hard to imagine that a £12 loan can be life-changing.
But for Margaret Chunga, living in the tiny village of Chipepete in central Malawi, a tiny loan has made a huge difference.
She used the loan to buy wheat flour, salt and sugar in order to set up a road-side [...]
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