Posts Tagged ‘Health’
Santa Cruz Challenge Health Talk: Water – Ron Duncan Part 5
Saturday, December 10, 2011 13:35 No CommentsOne of the major goals of this week is to encourage healthy water consumption and to give Santa Cruz county residents alternatives to drinking bottled water. We want to make a huge statement this week and move away from the purchase of bottled water. Bottled water creates huge amounts of energy wastage. It takes 1.5 [...]
A Rocha Uganda – A Healthy Wetland & Health Lives.mov
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 19:47 1 CommentMeet Sara Kaweesa, A Rocha’s National Director in Uganda. Sara lives at the A Rocha field base in the slums around Lubigi Wetland on the outskirts of Kampala. A Rocha Uganda is studying and protecting the wetland, important for many waterbirds and birds of prey, through their work with the local communities. Providing clean drinking [...]
UNICEF’s mobile health units and temporary learning centers in Pakistan
Friday, August 26, 2011 9:38 No Comments2 September 2010 UNICEF provides flood victims with mobile health units and temporary learning centres After a month of catastrophic flooding, relief efforts in southern sindh are being stretched by the country’s unprecedented ongoing disaster. Sindh is the worst-affected province, with 19 of its 23 districts affected. As the waters head south wards, hundreds and [...]
Changing Lives, Improving Health
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 17:57 2 CommentsThese photos are from Cameroon, taken by Peter Njodzeka, a professional photographer who is a founder of an NGO, Life and Water Development Group, working to improve the lives and change the lives of those in need in the local communities. You can contact us at: info@lwdgc-africa.org or visit our website at: www.lwdgc-africa.org or view [...]
Santa Cruz Challenge Health Talk: Water – Ron Duncan Part 1
Monday, May 30, 2011 15:58 No CommentsOne of the major goals of this week is to encourage healthy water consumption and to give Santa Cruz county residents alternatives to drinking bottled water. We want to make a huge statement this week and move away from the purchase of bottled water. Bottled water creates huge amounts of energy wastage. It takes 1.5 [...]
Pharmagen Health Limited – Acumen Fund
Thursday, March 31, 2011 0:17 No CommentsPharmagen Health Limited the newest disbursement is our first water portfolio investment in Pakistan with PHL. PHL is a community water systems company which plans to set up water purification plants across dense low-income communities. This investment provides safe, clean drinking water to low-income communities through a Reverse Osmosis (RO) and UV filtration process. Pharmagen [...]
Jacobs Well India Ben is 12 Years Old.mp4
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 15:39 1 CommentBen is just 12 years old and walks dogs to raise money for Jacob’s Well who hope to break the poverty cycle by clean drinking water in villages, establishing health and resource centres and providing life changing education for children from tribal villages and the slums. www.jacobswell.org.au
Kids Get it Done
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 0:06 No CommentsAir, water, and soil pollution affect our health–especially that of our kids. Suspicious water from a school drinking fountain led a 6th grade student from a series of chemistry experiments to an all-out advocacy campaign.
Business born from water in Kenya
Sunday, December 19, 2010 3:39 No CommentsThat safe drinking water is good for your health Bernadette Wangari could imagine. But that you could save money through it and start a business, well, that she only discovered after a few weeks.
How To Choose The Best Clean & Pure Water Filter For Lasting Good Health
Sunday, October 17, 2010 7:35 No CommentsThere are no two ways about it. The quality of drinking water being supplied to our homes is so bad, one would get nightmares if they knew exactly what it contains inside. A reliable clean & pure water filter is the need of the hour to ensure your family is drinking really pure water only. [...]