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Pakistan wastes $3.7 million worth of donated vaccine, official says
Pakistan has wasted $3.7 million worth of vaccines donated to protect children from deadly diseases because officials failed to store them properly, a senior health official told Reuters on Monday.
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- Health Care
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British student founds social enterprise for electronic waste management in Nigeria
A student from the University of Northampton has made it his mission to tackle the growing problem of electrical waste in Nigeria by launching his own social enterprise.
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- Education, Environment
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- social enterprise, waste
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Mental health needs realistic treatment – or we face decades of wasted time
NGOs can play a decisive role in ensuring that those with mental health problems aren't misdiagnosed, and receive treatment that takes cultural and educational barriers into account
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- Health Care
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Toxic waste sites detrimental to health in India: research
Toxic waste sites in India with elevated levels of lead and chromium are causing disease, disability and even death, leading to loss of healthy years of life among people, according to a new research.
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- Health Care
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- public health, waste
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Nairobi Company Develop Innovative Technique for Waste Management
Just one-third of Nairobi’s trash makes it to the single municipal dumpsite at Dandora.
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- Uncategorized
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- social enterprise, waste
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Bolivia Invests $20 Million in Waste Management
WASHINGTON, DC, December 10, 2012 (ENS) – Bolivia will improve municipal solid waste management services such as collection, transportation, and disposal, with a $20 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank, the bank announced today.
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- Health Care
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Tackling food waste through a social enterprise model
The founder of social enterprise Rubies in the Rubble, proves that you can run a company with a business head and a charitable heart
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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- nutrition, social enterprise, waste
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Waste Not, Want Not: Eco-Fuel Africa
Sanga Moses, is the founder of Eco-Fuel Moses recently applied for the WWF Switzerland Tropical Forest Challenge – a challenge that is working to identify the best for-profit solutions having a positive impact on tropical forest biodiversity in any of the 75 tropical forest-rich countries around the world.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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