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 Sunshine for sustainable
business and better health. Saturday, July 4, 2009 |
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Harnessing Both the Sun and Cell Phones to Close the Gap in Local Healthcare
Lori Hanna and the solar autoclave research have been featured on the World Changing website:
Two projects led by US students and their international allies are helping to fill gaps in health care gaps in the Global South. Though one project involves cell phone text messaging and the other equipment sterilizers powered by the sun, they have the same inspiration: using simple technology to build on the value of existing social capital... Click here to read the rest of the article!
This past Friday, Daniel Hensel (far left photo) and Nathan David, half of the Salud del Sol Field team for Summer 2009, traveled to Nicaragua for a summer full of solar autoclave testing and business classes in Sabana Grande. They will be joined later this summer by engineering students Erin Sutton and Maria Fullen. Check out Nathan and Daniel's blogs to read about their experience this summer and to offer your ideas!
If you would like to donate items to the Green Store of Las Mujere Solares to send with members of the field team, please visit the Support for Salud del Sol page for a list of needed items.
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