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Peepoople. Peepoople has four main focus areas: urban slums, schools, emergency response and refugee/IDP camps.

Peepoople

These are the areas where we believe the Peepoo solution has the potential to add the highest value and have the largest impact, contributing to effectively preventing the spread of diseases. For humanitarian response in emergencies and refugee and IDP camps, Peepoople sells the Peepoo products (Peepoo Personal Pack, Peepoo Kiti and Peepoo Yizi) to aid organisations, UN agencies and governments, either directly or through local distributors. In both emergencies and refugee/IDP camps Peepoos are typically handed out for free to beneficiaries, sometimes as part of hygiene kits, and distribution is usually combined with already established routines for hygiene promotion. Bike4Work - Entrepreneurship. Many Africans don't have enough money to buy a bicycle in one go, but do have a vision on how they can use a bicycle to improve their livelihood.

Bike4Work - Entrepreneurship

These people (and especially women are encouraged to participate) can apply for a bicycle on credit via one of our partner organisations. Project Masiluleke. Project Masiluleke is the first ever attempt to tackle the HIV epidemic in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa with a mobile solution starting with a single text message to one million phones.

Project Masiluleke

The voicemail and text messaging campaign helped to triple average daily call volume to the National AIDS Helpline, encouraging more than 150,000 people to reach out for information. Much of last year was focused on advocacy with the South African government and building relationships with key experts in the field of infectious disease. The purpose of these advocacy efforts was to prepare the ground for a series of much more extensive user testing and trials that launched in March of 2010.

In parallel, we have extended the reach of the program into the area of treatment reminders and compliance, rolling out an SMS-based alert system for HIV and TB patients. Project Masiluleke. When Krista Dong and Zinhle Thabethe came to the 2006 PopTech conference in Camden, Maine, they hoped to expand their fight against HIV/AIDS, one of South Africa’s greatest problems.

Project Masiluleke

They were the founders of iTEACH, an HIV/AIDS and TB prevention and treatment program in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Impressed by their story, conference organizers and Robert Fabricant of frog design came together with iTEACH to address these real-world challenges through the conference’s vision - accelerating social innovation through technology. Addressing HIV/AIDS was particularly challenging in iTEACH's home in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal.

High infection rates had overwhelmed medical facilities.

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Product. Design Futurescaping: Where's the Value? Philips: Philanthropy by Design. How Philips, working with nonprofits, is tackling the low-tech needs of the world's poor For decades, Nirmala Shivdas Kshirsagar prepared family meals on a chula, a wood-burning oven made from mud.

Philips: Philanthropy by Design

The stove cost little to operate, but the 45-year-old village schoolteacher paid a price: Unruly flames frequently burned Kshirsagar's hands and feet, and smoke filled her three-room home, making breathing difficult and leaving a sooty mess on the kitchen's mud-plastered walls. It's a common problem: The U.N. estimates that smoke inhalation from indoor wood stoves kills 1.6 million people worldwide each year. So when an Indian development organization last year asked if Kshirsagar wanted to try an improved chula developed in conjunction with the Amsterdam-based electronics giant, Royal Philips Electronics (PHG), she agreed. One year later, Kshirsagar says she loves the stove. Nasce il supermercato per i disoccupati: lavoro in cambio della spesa gratis. Girl Effect & Nike Foundation. Butterfly Works - Positive Chain Of Events.

Santiago Cirugeda. Santiago Cirugeda's practice is borne of the frustration that as an artist or an architect it is quite easy to transform the space of the city through obtaining permits for installations and temporary interventions, yet as a citizen it is almost impossible to take action to improve your own environment.

Santiago Cirugeda

His work therefore questions what it is to be an architect in this context and he tries to empower citizens to act in their own locality by showing how it is possible to subvert laws, regulations, and conventions. Worldchanging. Social Impact Category for the 2012 Core77 Design Awards. TimeBanks USA. PET Lamp. In the Summer of 2011, on a visit to Colombia, I was invited to form part of an attractive project focussed on the reuse of plastic bottles PET.

PET Lamp

Hélène Le Drogou, psychologist and activist concerned with the plastic waste that contaminates the Colombian Amazon, invited me to give my point of view as an industrial designer on this problem. As part of a group of creatives involved in this project, I could see that the pollution generated by the plastic bottles that we use every day is a problem that affects us on a global level.

It was because of this that I decided to develop a project that would provide answers, from a design viewpoint, to this global issue. The way we addressed this problem was to combine it with an ancient artisan resource: the textile tradition. Thus, my idea was to convert an object with a short and specific lifespan into a product enriched by the cosmogony of the local culture.

Seen from a distance, for its logical complexity, it seemed like an impossible task. Made in Sishane.