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Jiawen Wu's Blog – May 2012 Archive (3)
Corporate barter generates the new global trend
Active International is the world's biggest corporate barter company in UK. Instead of money, Active gives companies barter credits for last season's clothes, spare hotel rooms or tins of peas, which they can swap for goods and services they need at a later date. A common purchase with the credits is advertising, company travel or printing, bought at a discount through Active's trading desks. Whether it is large companies with excess stock or small businesses that need to grow but don't have… Continue
Added by Jiawen Wu on May 28, 2012 at 3:27pm — No Comments
Carbon For Water
In April and May, 2011, up to 900,000 LifeStraw Family water filters will be distributed to approximately 90% of all households in the Western Province of Kenya. The "Carbon for Water" distribution program will provide more than four million residents with quick access to safe drinking water at home.
The program is led and solely funded by Vestergaard Frandsen (VF), a European company that specializes in disease control textiles, including LifeStraw Family water filters, in partnership…
Added by Jiawen Wu on May 21, 2012 at 4:04pm — No Comments
Masiluleke -- Hope that Technology brings
The Project Masiluleke (meaning "hope" in Zulu) shows the great potential that technology has in public health sector, by delivering HIV/AIDS and TB messages to the general public, providing counseling via cell phone, supporting HIV Self-Testing and keeping patients connected to care. This successful project shows the importance of understanding the crux of one problem, in this case the living situation of HIV positive citizens. The access to health care information was not blocked by…
ContinueAdded by Jiawen Wu on May 1, 2012 at 1:47pm — No Comments
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public servants
The exchange works directly for state and public workers and servants. It gives them credit in exchange for the amount of public work they contribute to the community. The more constructive they are based off a base rate the more credit they recieve.
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