Development Marketplace was Early Investor: Small Scale Renewable Power
Great New York Times story going viral today on how villagers around the world are finally getting electricity in their homes with solar devices. With this tiny bit of power, they can charge cell...
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Blogging from the field: Kadogo and Oyugis, Yogurt Results from Kenya
Hi I am Karen Vega, and am responsible for oversight and monitoring for the Development Marketplace project portfolio. I am on mission visiting projects in Tanzania, Kenya and Burkina Faso. I am...
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Increasing Profits for Dairy Farmers
The Rural Milk Collection project of DM2006 has been running successfully for two years. The project was to demonstrate the ISAAC Solar icemaker as a method of providing ice and refrigeration to rural...
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"Every time I see a problem, I create a social business to solve it"
“Every time I see a problem, I create a social business to solve it,” renowned Nobel Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus said to an overflowing room at the World Bank Group’s Headquarters in Washington, DC...
View ArticleBeyond building products – changing hearts and minds to actually use them
They were everywhere — blown-up condoms flying around as balloons in a small village in southern Kenya. A day earlier volunteers from an international NGO came to the village to promote family...
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