Social Innovations
Chinese Activity in Africa, Part 1: Feeding the Dragon
Chinese investment in Africa could mean new opportunities in goods, services, and employment.
Tag: Africa
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Health
Andrea Coleman - Keeping Healthcare Mobile Saves Lives
Many areas of rural Africa suffer from a lack of healthcare delivery. In this audio interview with host Sheela Sethuraman, Andrea Coleman explains how she and her husband founded Riders for Health to provide life-saving assistance to such regions. She outlines how the organization uses motorcycles, in particular, to transport healthcare providers and medical goods, and how it has created a sustainable approach.
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Global Issues
Paul Farmer - Scaling Up Healthcare in Rwanda
AIDS, malaria, and maternal mortality are some of the chronic public health issues that plague Africa. Invited to Stanford, Paul Farmer talks about how his Boston-based organization, Partners In Health, is spending donor dollars to bring the lessons garnered from its work in Haiti to scale up healthcare services in war-torn Rwanda. As dicussed in this audio lecture, his organization seeks to fill the gap that exists between medical R&D and healthcare delivery so preventions and cures can be brought to more of the people who need them.
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Education
Beulah Thumbadoo - Making Reading Sexier
Beulah Thumbadoo talks about her experiences promoting adult literacy, first from within the South African government and university system, and then through her own organization. Talking with Design for Change host Sheela Sethuraman in this audio interview, she also shares advice from her experience on social entrepreneurship.
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Nonprofits & NGOs
Kim Feinberg - Self-Sufficiency Through Education
AIDS in South Africa has left millions of children without parents or any resources to help themselves. In this audio interview with Design for Change host Sheela Sethuraman, Kim Feinberg describes how her organization, the Tomorrow Trust, uses education to help these children grow into self sufficient, economically productive, and socially included adults.
Health
Cultivating Cross-Sector Partnerships
An HIV organization in Botswana provides lessons in cooperation.
Podcast
Technology
Ethan Zuckerman - Bringing Technology to Africa
As a technologist, Ethan Zuckerman has spent much time working with the new generation of African entrepreneurs, programmers, organizers, and young people who are hooking up their continent to the Web. In an audio interview with Globeshakers host Tim Zak, Zuckerman explains how these new netizens are changing the way villagers and urban dwellers learn, organize, network, and face the challenges of poverty, AIDS, political strife, and making a living.
Human Rights
The Hidden Cost of Paradise
Indigenous people are being displaced to create wilderness areas, to the detriment of all.
Economic Development
Closing the Culture Gap
Aiding Africans first requires understanding their cultures.
Civil Society
Imagining a Democracy
In Morocco, there are 33,000 NGOs, many of which are engaged in a massive struggle to bring a civil society to life.