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My parents and I donated $30 in total for this project: http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/a-hundred-friends/
"This project empowers local women to tackle poverty, improves education, and fights daily difficulties in their lives to bring a brighter future by accessing to income-generating work."
Obviously I can't follow the flow of our donation and see its effect at first hand which is…
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Being born in China I felt the responsibility to look for projects supporting Chinese women. Scanning through all active projects I came across this one: http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/a-hundred-friends/
"Empowering a woman is empowering a family"
This projects aims to equip local textile craftsmen with the necessary items, who would then be hired to create traditional Tibetan textiles.…
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I own an Ipod which is why seeing the word "POD" on this site http://www.kickstarter.com caught my attention. I briefly scanned the description and decided to support it by donating a dollar. What impressed me most is the idea of carrying renewal energy with me when I'm outside. Renewable energy concepts usually catch my attention since the earth is slowly running out of its natural resources. What people need most nowadays is to find out how to…
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Teen precnancy
Teen pregnancy is one of Madagascar's severe issues. Girls as young as 12 or 13 years old get pregnant because they lack education and birth control. Often the birth comes with a lot of other difficulties such as travelling to far away hospitals, high death rates right after giving birth and post-birth infections leading to dangerous diseases and sometimes even death. UN Population Fund revealed that the Sofia region has one of the highest death rates in the country, with…
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There's one thing beside money you hold close to you wherever you go. Yes, you guessed it right, it's your personal mobile phone. Building upon this fact, SapientNitro came up with a very detailed and interesting infographic about mobile payments in the future. The growing distribution of smart phones makes the development of mobile payment concepts even easier.
There are 3 different types of mobile…
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It's March 24, 2020 and "Global Water Day". On this day founded 5 years ago experts composed a list of water saving methods. Even though GWD is still at its experimenting stage, a lot of people already choose to celebrate it by applying different methods to this special day. I want to introduce one method I came up with 5 years ago:
How many times do you flush your toilet every day? Have you ever been wondering why the toilet always uses clean (drinkable) water to flush down your…
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While investigating innovative water projects for mission 4 I came across the "Uganda Water Project". I briefly described their mission to provide safe and accessible drinking water using water tanks in Uganda (please check my "Learn" blog post of mission 4). Each water tank costs $3500 to build and install and can be used for more than 30 years!
I must admit that I've never donated any money to projects like this before. Which is why I decided to stop being selfish and finally…
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While looking for innovative water projects I came across the project called "Uganda Water Project" (UWP). It aims at providing safe and accessible drinking water and other catalyst resources to communities in Uganda. UWP centers around rain water collection systems funded by donors wishing to have an individual connection to rural communities in the East African nation of Uganda.
It takes about 30 days to install and build a tank once the funds are…
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I'm sitting in the living room with my family and we're having Christmas dinner. The main light source comes from candles on our Christmas tree next to the table. The electrical light is darkened and you can hear soft music coming from the radio. Everything in our living room uses a power source we generate on our own (except for the TV). Each of us generates mechanical energy for the generator we keep in our garage. The converted electrical energy stays for at least a year before starting…
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The table lamp standing right next to me is the item I use everyday. It would be great if I could generate its power source on my own. I've read some of other Evoke members' ideas; the most popular one is to build a generator which can feed your lamp with electrical power. The basic idea is to convert mechanical energy to electrical energy. I came up with several steps which I think are important for building a generator:
Step 1: Collect data of my everyday life
What kind of…
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Basic facts about India's electricity supply
More than 65% of India's population lives in the countryside which contains more than 60 000 villages. Many of them are situated in rugged terrain and inaccessible locations. This is the reason why most of these remote villages are not connected to the national electric power grid. Some villages have a very irregular electricity supply whereas other villages have no electricity at all.
Innovator Manoj Sinha
Indian…
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I think that it is difficult and kind of boring to increase the food security on your own. I would lack motivation to keep up with my work, especially knowing that I can buy food from a supermarket at anytime. This is why I'm planning on starting my own gardening club. I'll invite friends to join in order to set up and work on the garden together. We will plant our own fruit trees and vegetables. Once a year we will hold a "banquet" (probably a stand on a marketplace) with food from our…
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Even though my current hometown lies in Germany, I decided to take a look at China's recent food security issues. I personally believe that China's food security challenges are more dominant than those in Germany. Partly because of the much bigger population and partly because of China's rapid development in economy and technology. After ungoing researches online I came across 3 major challenges China has to deal with in the present. I will then give a brief introduction to plant nutriomics.…
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