WaterHealth is leading ‘A Blue Revolution’, with a mission to provide safe water to the poorest communities. It also invests in health and hygiene education programs to help combat waterborne diseases in the communities it serves.
For me, the most interesting thing is that they intend to make a profit doing this. Their focus is [...]

The last time I wrote about the successful telecom venture, GrameenPhone, I shared my enthusiasm for big business partnering with non-profits to open up markets in developing countries. Because of it, small entrepreneurs in Bangladesh, ‘village phone ladies’, are renting out the use of handset airtime to some 12 million users. A shining example of [...]

Around 20% of the world’s population still lack access to clean drinking water, and around 2 million children die every year because of water-related diseases. It’s an issue that deeply concerns me, and so I was very interested to come across the LifeStraw at the Dubai Humanitarian Aid Conference (DIHAD) a few weeks back. [...]